The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz?

Question

Why was Rawicz being forced to sign that confession?

Answer 1

There is controversy regarding 1) reason for arrest and 2) the signing of a confession.    Below are a few perspectives of the issue and the links are provided for the sources so that you can read further and perhaps come to your own conclusion (or form an argument for each side).  Best of luck!

*  He claims to have successfully resisted all attempts to torture a confession out of him in prison. He was sentenced, ostensibly for spying, to 25 years of hard labor in a Siberian prison camp. The record verify that Rawicz was a Polish soldier but differ on the details of why he was arrested and the camps/prisons in the USSR he was held in.

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* * The documents also show that rather than being imprisoned on trumped-up charges as he claimed, Rawicz was actually sent to the gulag for killing an officer with the NKVD, the forerunner of the Soviet secret police, the KGB.   (source link below)