Caroline Moorehead

The ‘rumours’ we chose to ignore

Pilecki deliberately got himself arrested in order to provide first-hand intelligence of the Nazi extermination programme – only for the Allies to ignore his warnings

issue 13 July 2019

  • The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz

    Jack Fairweather

    W.H. Allen, pp. 505

On 14 October 1942, the 23 Swiss members of the International Committee of the Red Cross met in Geneva to decide whether or not to go public with what they then knew about Auschwitz and the Nazis’ extermination plans. When they emerged two hours later they had voted, almost unanimously, to remain silent.

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