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A review by wintermute314
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
4.0
Karski wrote this immediately after the war and it shows. Sometimes he carefully avoids mentioning names probably because these people might still have been active under the communist occupation.
The book sometimes really has the structure of a report and the description of the structure of the secret state of Poland can be somewhat tedious.
The high point of the book is the harrowing account of his secret visits to the Warsaw ghetto and the extermination camp at Belzec. Karski risked his live to give a first hand report of what was happening to the Polish Jews while the rest of the world lived in ignorance of what the Nazis were doing. It makes his description of the atrocities more harsh, as if you hear it for the first time.
The book sometimes really has the structure of a report and the description of the structure of the secret state of Poland can be somewhat tedious.
The high point of the book is the harrowing account of his secret visits to the Warsaw ghetto and the extermination camp at Belzec. Karski risked his live to give a first hand report of what was happening to the Polish Jews while the rest of the world lived in ignorance of what the Nazis were doing. It makes his description of the atrocities more harsh, as if you hear it for the first time.