Wilm Hosenfeld

German army officer (1895-1952)

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Lived 1895–1952, aged 57Germany

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1895–1952
Aged 57

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Updated 2026-05-29

German Army intelligence officer in occupied Warsaw during WWII who interrogated prisoners before executions. His postwar account of the Warsaw Uprising became a historical reference point despite his controversial wartime role.

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Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld was a German Catholic school teacher, Nazi activist, and propaganda and intelligence officer in the German Army during World War II. He served as the commander of prisoner-of-war camps in the General Government and from 1940 as an intelligence and counterintelligence officer in the garrison of occupied Warsaw. During the Warsaw Uprising, he interrogated captive Polish civilians, Polish resistance members and Red Army soldiers before their execution.

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