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    What Is the Greatest Act of Courage?

    Apr 11, 2019 2 minutes
    Source: Graham Roumieu

    Roger Moorhouse, author, The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact With Stalin, 1939–1941

    It is hard to top the incredible bravery of Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier who in 1940 volunteered to join a German roundup so that he could report on what was going on inside a newly established concentration camp. That camp was Auschwitz.

    Heath Hardage Lee, author, The League of Wives

    On May was forced by his North Vietnamese captors to film a propaganda video. He Denton knew he risked beatings and other severe reprisals, but he still chose to “blow it wide open.”

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