Doomed To Repeat It

  Tristan and Leila explore the horrors of the early 20th century, and meet humanity's best answer to its very worst. It's not...hilarious. Episode 19, in which Leila discovers: - Baltic geography. - the history of the Polish scouting movement. - the triumphant peaks and depraved chasms of recorded human experience. This one gets a bit heavier as it goes along. And in which Tristan: - is present. Witold Pilecki (1901 - 1948) As a young cavalry officer (~1920) With wife and son (1932) Induction at Auschwitz (1940) Captured by Soviets (1947) Trial (1948)