German army officer (1895-1952)
A Wehrmacht intelligence officer who interrogated prisoners before their execution in occupied Warsaw — and secretly pulled at least three Polish Jews out of the machinery of extermination, including pianist Władysław Szpilman, whose survival became The Pianist.
Wilhelm Hosenfeld was a German Catholic schoolteacher who became a Nazi activist and propaganda officer before the war. Posted to occupied Poland in 1940, he commanded POW camps in the General Government and served as intelligence officer in the Warsaw garrison, where during the 1944 Uprising he interrogated captured Poles and Soviet soldiers awaiting execution. Somewhere in that machinery he began pulling people out: at least three Polish Jews, among them classical composer Władysław Szpilman, whom he sheltered during the final destruction of Warsaw. The rescues stayed hidden until Szpilman's…
Sourced, dated quotes from Wilm Hosenfeld
With this horrendous murder of the Jews we have lost the war. We have brought an indelible shame upon ourselves, a curse that cannot be lifted.
Both the and butchered their upper ruling classes and executed their royal families.
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