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"en.20081203.18.3-210"2
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"Mr President, may I use the platform offered by the European Parliament to appeal for support for the initiative of Polish patriotic circles calling for 25 May, the day on which Captain Pilecki was shot, to be named European Day of Heroes in the struggle against totalitarianism.
The British historian, Professor Michael Foot, regarded Captain Pilecki as one of the six bravest participants of the World War II resistance movement. Witold Pilecki, an officer in the Polish Army who took part in the September Campaign during the German occupation of Poland, organised a resistance movement in Auschwitz, having become a voluntary prisoner there.
Having escaped from the Nazi camp, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising and in the Second Polish Corps in Italy, and, on his return to Communist Poland, was arrested by the Communist Security Services and put in prison, where he was tortured, condemned to death and shot on 25 May 1948.
Captain Pilecki devoted his life to the fight against the criminal dictatorships of the 20th century."@en1
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