Pilecki's Report came to light in the 1960s, and his story has been mentioned in some works published in English (beginning with Józef Garliński's Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp in 1975) but research on this topic was prohibited in Poland. Only after the Soviet Union and the Polish communist regime collapsed in 1989 did the Polish state archives on previously classified topics such as the story of Pilecki become accessible to independent historians, allowing for new research on these topics. (The 'rumours' we chose to ignore - Witold Pilecki risked his life to bring news of Auschwitz to the Allies, but his detailed reports fell on deaf ears) Several monographs on Pilecki appeared Poland since the 1990s, and in 2012 Pilecki's diary was translated into English and published under the title The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery.
