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TIL of Kazimierz Piechowski, an Auschwitz prisoner who learnt that his friend was to be executed, and thus escaped with him and 2 other prisoners by disguising themselves as SS, stealing an SS car, convincing the gate guards that they were SS and demanding they open the gate, and simply drove off.

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