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Story of a Secret State is a 1944 book by Polish resistance Home Army courier Jan Karski. First published in the United States in 1944, it narrates Karski's experiences with the Polish Resistance (the Polish Secret State), and it is also one of the first book accounts of the German occupation of Poland, including the Holocaust in Poland.

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dbo:abstract	Story of a Secret State is a 1944 book by Polish resistance Home Army courier Jan Karski. First published in the United States in 1944, it narrates Karski's experiences with the Polish Resistance (the Polish Secret State), and it is also one of the first book accounts of the German occupation of Poland, including the Holocaust in Poland. The book became a besteller in 1944. It helped to inform the American and Western public about the scope of active resistance in Poland, and it also has been described as one of the first accounts of the suffering of Poles and Polish Jews under the Nazi occupation, made available to the Western public. (en)
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