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Fighting Auschwitz, the resistance movement in the concentration camp, Józef Garliński

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Fighting Auschwitz

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Józef Garliński

the resistance movement in the concentration camp

Abbreviations -- Introduction / Professor Antony Polonsky -- Foreword / Professor M. R. D. Foot -- Preface -- Part One -- Chaper 1 -- Voluntarily to Auschwitz -- Undercover Mission -- The German Plans for Auschwitz -- Construction and Early Days of Auschwitz -- Witold Pilecki Arrives in Auschwitz -- Organization and Admininstration of the Auschwitz Camp -- Use of Prisoners in the Camp Administration -- Himmler's Visit to Auschwitz -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- The Development of Underground Work in the Camp -- The First 'Five' -- The Polish Underground -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- The Underground Organization in the Neighbourhood of the Camp -- Secret Wkork in the Hospital -- The First Reports to London -- The Organization of Labour and Underground Workers in Key Positions -- The Orchestra; Collective Responsibility for Escapes -- The German-Soviet Union War -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Part Two -- Chapter 4 -- The First Deaths from Gassing -- The Fourth 'Five' -- Agreement Between the Military and Political Groups -- The Building of Birkenau -- Slave Labour in Auschwitz and Sub-Camps -- The Extermination of the Jews -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- The Underground Network in Birkenau -- Pilecki's Contact with the Czechs -- The Radio Transmitter -- The Underground's First Escapes -- Revolt in the Penal Companies -- Further Unification of the MIlitary Groups -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- The Women's Camp -- The Hospital -- Liquidation of Informer's -- Reassignment of Military Leadership -- Himmler's Second Visit -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Losses Among the Underground -- Help from Outside the Camp -- The Partisan Units -- Pilecki's Escape -- Pilecki Reports to His Home Army Superiors -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Part Three -- Chapter 8 -- Summary of the Previous Period -- Underground Leadership After Pilecki's Escape -- Overview of Nationalities and Ethnic Groups at Auschwitz -- The Austrian Group -- The French Group -- The Soviet Group -- Other Groups -- Formation of the Kampfgruppe Auschwitz -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- The Surveyors' Kommando -- SS Morale -- Conditions in the Hospital -- Liquidation of the Leaders of the Polish Military Underground -- The New Commandant and Changes in the Camp -- Influence of Hermann Langbein -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Further Action by the Underground -- Changes at the Hospital; Obliterating Traces of Crimes -- The Book the Bunker -- Liquidation of Hungarian Jews -- Changes in the Underground -- Notes to Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Escapes and Partisans -- The Moll Plan -- The Revolt in the Sonderkommando -- Preparations for the Relief of the Camp -- The Underground's Final Actions -- Evacuation -- Notes to Chapter 11 -- Conclusion -- Afterword / Jarek Garlinski