Sławomir Rawicz

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Sławomir Rawicz (Polish pronunciation: [swaˈvɔmir ˈravit͡ʂ]; 1 September 1915 – 5 April 2004) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the Soviet invasion of Poland. In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and begun a long journey south on foot (about 6,500 km or 4,000 mi), supposedly travelling through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before finally reaching India in the winter of 1942. In 1955, one year before the publishing of The Long Walk, German Author Josef Martin Bauer released So weit die Füße tragen, a German language book about fictionalized Soldier Clemens Forell (later identified to be former Wehrmacht Soldier Cornelius Rost) which claims a similar narrative about a Siberian escape and subsequent journey to Iran. Rost's account was proven factually untrue in 2010 by journalist Arthur Dittlmann.[1] In 2006, the BBC released a report based on former Soviet...

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