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Informationen zum Autor Jan Karski was born in Lódz, Poland, in 1914. He received a degree in Law and Diplomatic Science in 1935 and served as a liaison officer of the Polish Underground during World War II. He carried the first eyewitness report of the Holocaust to a mostly unbelieving West, meeting with President Roosevelt in 1943 to plead for Allied intervention. Story of a Secret State was originally published in 1944, becoming a bestseller and Book of the Month Club selection. After the war, Karski earned his PhD at Georgetown University, where he served as a distinguished professor in the School of Foreign Service for forty years. He died in Washington, DC, in 2000. Karski has been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. In 2012, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Klappentext Karski's Story of a Secret State stands as inspiring memoir of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, this volume is a testimony of one man's courage, and a nation's struggle for resistance against oppression. Note on the Text Publisher's Note Preface Foreword Biographical Essay of Jan Karski 1. Defeat2. Prisoner in Russia3. Exchange and Escape4. Devastated Poland5. The Beginning6. Transformation7. Initiation8. Borecki9. Contact between Cells10. Mission to France11. The Underground State12. Caught by the Gestapo13. Torture14. The SS Hospital15. Rescue16. The "Gardener"17. Propoganda from the Country18. Execution of a Traitor19. The Four Branches of the Underground20. The Laskowa Apartment21. Assignment in Lublin22. Retribution23. The Secret Press24. My "Conspiratorial Apparatus"25. The Liaison Women26. Marriage per Procuram27. School -- Underground28. Parliament in Poland29. The Ghetto30. "To Die in Agony..."31. Unter den Linden Revisited32. Journey through France and Spain33. My Report to the World Notes Glossary Further Reading Afterword Index ...
