
	Where results make sense

Topic: Wilm Hosenfeld

Related Topics

Wladyslaw Szpilman

Karl Plagge

Frank Foley

Raphael Lemkin

Corrie ten Boom

Oskar Schindler

Warsaw Ghetto

Warsaw

Proof by exhaustion

January 17

Stalingrad

Socialism with a human face

1895

May 2

Zhang Jun

	Men of Courage
		Wilm Hosenfeld was a kind and gentle Wehrmacht officer who believed in helping others, even at the risk of getting himself killed - a man who had the courage to stand against evil.
		Wilm Hosenfeld was taken captive by the Soviets on January 17, 1945.
		Wilm Hosenfeld died in a prisoner camp near Stalingrad on August 13, 1952, at the age of 57, due to hard conditions in prison and brutal interrogations.
	www.mengele.dk /Courage/Albums/Album2/Wilm2.htm (1275 words)

	Qwika - Wilm Hosenfeld
		Wilm trousers field, in the meantime, followed 44jaehrig with a national infantry battalion
		Over of Wilm trousers field information about its alleged secretofficial Activity to force, one set him for the so-called "verhoer" in the remand centre Minsk out.
		Wilm trousers field was coined/shaped by the principles of its warmherzigen, strictly catholic family, by those
	wikipedia.qwika.com /de2en/Wilm_Hosenfeld (400 words)

	Wilm Hosenfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilm Hosenfeld (May 2, 1895 in Rhoendorf Mackenzell, Germany–August 13, 1952 near Stalingrad), a teacher by trade, was a German Catholic regular-army officer (Captain), and a member of the Nazi party, who saved the Polish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman from death in the ruins of Warsaw.
		Hosenfeld and several fellow officers who felt sympathy for the people of occupied Poland, Jews included, had grown ashamed of what some of their countrymen were doing.
		Hosenfeld was taken captive by the Soviets on January 17, 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilm_Hosenfeld (325 words)

	The Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage - The Story of the German who Saved Szpilman
		Hosenfeld belonged to the NSDAP and trusted Hitler; for him the war was a historical mission.
		Wilm Hosenfeld was imprisoned by the Soviets on January 17th, 1945 in Blonie.
		Hosenfeld died in a prisoner camp near Stalingrad on August 13th, 1952 at the age of 57.
	polish-jewish-heritage.org /Eng/listopad_story.html (1012 words)

	»Ich versuche jeden zu retten« , von Wilm Hosenfeld
		Hosenfeld, der in Warschau mit großem pädagogischen Ehrgeiz eine Sportschule der Wehrmacht leitet, nutzt seinen Posten nun verstärkt, um verfolgte Polen zu verstecken.
		Szpilman gegenüber bekennt Hosenfeld, dass er sich nach allem, was geschehen sei, schäme, ein Deutscher zu sein.
		Sie wurden in vielen Fällen entweder durch Hosenfeld falsch - einfach phonetisch - angegeben und vom Herausgeber nicht korrigiert oder in Kommentaren fehlerhaft geschrieben (auf eine Aufzählung wird hier aus Platzgründen verzichtet).
	www.arlindo-correia.com /160705.html (5921 words)

	»Ich versuche jeden zu retten« , von Wilm Hosenfeld
		Hosenfeld ist neben seiner Dorflehrertätigkeit in der Erwachsenenbildung, der frühen Berufs- und Volkshochschulbewegung engagiert.
		1939 zieht Wilm Hosenfeld ein zweites Mal in einen Weltkrieg.
		Anfang 1945 gerät Wilm Hosenfeld in sowjetische Kriegsgefangenschaft, in der er 1952 stirbt.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /wilm_hosenfeld.html (5705 words)

	Roman Polanski Vision - The Pianist - Wilm Hosenfeld
		Wilm Hosenfeld was a man who found the actions of his fellow officers and soldiers despicable.
		After reading the extracts of Hosenfeld's diaries you begin to see a gentle man who thinks deeply; a man who could see the wrong in the actions of those around him, a man who did not accept the actions of brutality and madness that he was surrounded by.
		You can also visit the Hosenfeld website at Hosenfeld.de - it was a wonderful experience to see this site created by his grandson Friedal Hosenfeld, especially after reading the book and extracts of Wilm's diary.
	minadream.com /romanpolanski/ThePianistWilm.htm (243 words)

	Wilm Hosenfeld - Wikipedia w mikama 08 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hosenfeld podczas I wojny światowej walczył w piechocie niemieckiej, będąc kilkakrotnie ranny.
		Hosenfeld był początkowo członkiem NSDAP i SA i wierzącym katolikiem - obie "wiary" stanęły w opozycji do siebie w trakcie okupacji.
		Hosenfeld dostał się do niewoli radzieckiej 17 stycznia 1945 r.
	www.mikama.com.pl /wiki/link-Wilm_Hosenfeld (371 words)

	The Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage -
		Wilm Hosenfeld was born in 1895, the son of the principal of a village school.
		The Wehrmacht is not to blame and it does not agree with all this, but we stand impotent on the sidelines and have to see all this." The distinction between the war criminals and the soldiers is a recurring motif in his writings, and he also repeated it when he was interrogated in Russian captivity.
		Hosenfeld himself, of course, was one of the soldiers.
	polish-jewish-heritage.org /Eng/Sept_04_Has_Satan.htm (2274 words)

	Wilm Hosenfeld - Wikipedia Mirror
		Wilm Hosenfeld (May 2 1895 in Rhoendorf Mackenzell, Germany–August 13 1952 near Stalingrad), a teacher by trade, was a German regular-army officer (Captain), and a member of the Nazi party, who saved the Polish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman from death in the ruins of Warsaw.
		He and several fellow officers, who had sympathy for the people of German-occupied Poland, the Jews included, and had grown ashamed of what many of their countrymen were doing, offered help to many as well as Szpilman.
		Wilm Hosenfeld: "Ich versuche jeden zu retten"—Das Leben eines deutschen Offiziers in Briefen und Tagebüchern (Wilm Hosenfeld: "'I try to save everyone [I can]'—The life of a German officer in [his] letters and diaries"), compiled and with commentary by Thomas Vogel, published by the Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamt (MGFA: Military History Research Institute), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich, 2004.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Wilm_Hosenfeld (255 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 - Wladyslaw ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In his diary Wilm Hosenfeld described his conscience and his hatred of totalitarian brutality, describing the horrors of the French Revolution and the horrific atrocities of the Bolshevik revolution, who'se leaders and footsoldiers acted without compassion or conscience, believing in the totality and infinite importance of their causes.
		Hosenfeld was captured by the Soviets after the war and died seven years later in a hideous Soviet Gulag.
		Lastly Hosenfeld makes the plea that a tree is planted at Yad Vashem in the honor of Wilm Hosenfeld, among those of the thousands of other righteous gentiles honoured at the holocaust museum in Jerusalem.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0312311354-locale-us.html (2031 words)

	Wilm Hosenfeld und die Erinnerungskultur
		Wilm Hosenfelds Haltung und seine Erfahrungen während der Zeit der Besatzung sowie sein Schicksal nach dem Krieg können und sollten zum gemeinsamen Nachdenken von Polen und Deutschen führen.
		Als Ehrengast geladen war auch Halina Szpilman, die Frau jenes Pianisten, den Wilm Hosenfeld in Warschau vor dem Tode bewahrt hatte, und der seinem Retter in seinen Memoiren ein Denkmal setzte.
		Der Petersberger Dr. Helmut Hosenfeld und seine Frau Gudrun kehrten aus Lodz mit guten Eindrücken zurück: Wir haben eine überwältigende Gastfreundschaft erfahren und durften erleben, was der Oberbürgermeister von Pabianice öffentlich so formulierte: Die Taten von Wilm Hosenfeld seien mit goldenen Lettern aufgeschrieben und in die Geschichte der Stadt Pabianice aufgenommen.
	www.fuldaerzeitung.de /sixcms/detail.php?id=100794 (453 words)

	Das Erste online - Der Retter des Pianisten Das Tagebuch des Nazi-Offiziers Wilm Hosenfeld
		Hosenfeld beschließt, Menschen vor der Vernichtung zu schützen.
		Wilm Hosenfeld verabscheut jetzt offen das verbrecherische NS-Regime und äußert sich immer unverhohlener.
		Wie Detlev Hosenfeld, der zweite Sohn Wilm Hosenfelds glaubt, "ist es sehr wahrscheinlich, dass er dieses Tagebuch in seiner Brusttasche immer bei sich getragen hat.
	www.ndrtv.de /kulturreport/hosenfeld_tagebuch.html (697 words)

	cinephilia.com \| The Pianist (2002)
		This narrative distance has unfortunately been misinterpreted by some critics as a lack of emotion altogether, yet it is integral to the purpose of the film; in the absence of narrative specificity, the audience is forced to consider what we would have done in the same situation.
		Hosenfeld discovers Szpilman hiding in a bombed-out mansion and tends to him until the war ends.
		There is a beautiful scene when Szpilman opens a package Hosenfeld has brought him and finds bread, a can opener, and, of all things, a bit of jam; the kindness of the gesture is enough to make one weep.
	www.cinephilia.com /reviews/pianist.html (888 words)

	Wilm Hosenfeld
		Yet there were acts of courage and kindness during the Holocaust - this is the story of Wilm Hosenfeld, a German Wehrmacht officer who believed in helping others, even at the risk of getting himself killed - a man who had the courage to stand against evil.
		Many, many people around the world, including Andrzej Szpilman, the son of the pianist, has been demanding, for years now, that Yad Vashem honor Wilm Hosenfeld as a Righteous Among the Nations: non-Jews who risked their lives in order to rescue Jews.
		Today the name of Wilm Hosenfeld is known to millions as a household word for courage...
	www.hosenfeld.dk /index.htm (241 words)

	Schulleben
		Hosenfelds Zweifel beginnen schon 1939: Er beobachtet, wie ein polnischer Schuljunge von der SS abgeführt wird.
		Hosenfeld besucht ein Lazarett - und schreibt seiner Frau Annemarie von den Opfern eines Weltanschauungskrieges, von zerstümmelten Soldaten, zerschossenen Körpern und toten Seelen.
		Wilm Hosenfeld stirbt 1952 in einem Lager bei Stalingrad.
	www.karlkuebelschule.de /html/schulleben.html (4535 words)

	Wladyslaw Szpilman: Das wunderbare Überleben (Buchtipp) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Da steht plötzlich ein Wehrmachtsoffizier vor ihm und fragt: "Was suchen Sie hier?" Szpilman starrt den Deutschen an.
		Als Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld herausfindet, dass es sich bei dem aufgestöberten Mann um einen Pianisten handelt, befiehlt er ihm, auf einem Flügel im Zimmer nebenan etwas zu spielen.
		Dezember 1943 schenkt Wilm Hosenfeld dem Untergetauchten seinen Mantel und verabschiedet sich, denn die Deutschen verlassen Warschau und weichen der Roten Armee.
	www.dieterwunderlich.de /Szpilman_leben.htm (1006 words)

	Melody Of Faith: The Pianist
		Hosenfeld was "an ardent Catholic who abhorred Nazism." In his diary, he wrote that the war happened because "humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it." Our "denial of God's commandments" and our unwillingness to "love one another" condemned us to die "innocent and guilty alike."
		This faith is why Hosenfeld "repeatedly risked his life to rescue others, Poles and Jews, from extermination." This is why these survivors, including Szpilman, tried to get Hosenfeld released from a Soviet labor camp, where he died in 1952.
		But it is a reminder that the kind of heroism displayed by people like Hosenfeld and other "righteous Gentiles" was, more often than not, a function of their faith.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/2237.htm (644 words)

	Amazon.de: The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 (Thorndike Press Large Print ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was only the first in a series of fatefully lucky escapes that littered his life as he hid among the rubble and corpses of the Warsaw Ghetto, growing thinner and hungrier, yet condemned to live.
		Ironically, it was a German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, who saved Szpilman's life by bringing food and an eiderdown to the derelict ruin where he discovered him.
		Hosenfeld died seven years later in a Stalingrad labour camp, but portions of his diary, reprinted here, tell of his outraged incomprehension of the madness and evil he witnessed, thereby establishing an effective counterpoint to ground the nightmarish vision of the pianist in a desperate reality.
	www.amazon.de /Pianist-Extraordinary-Survival-Thorndike-Buckinghams/dp/0786224207 (1751 words)

	Leithart.com \| The Pianist and the Nazis
		A recreational reserve officer in his late forties, Hosenfeld was a committed teacher and family man, an ardent Catholic who abhorred Nazism.
		Instead we are given a figure half Hosenfeld's age, a senior staff commander and Third Reich poster boy, a Nazi.
		Reborn, Hosenfeld can harbor the Jude, as he calls Szpilman in the film (but not in the book), and give him his coat, as Christ commands.
	www.leithart.com /archives/001484.php (614 words)

	: : : SCW Comments : : :
		Dr Mordecai Paldiel, a director of Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority), said, "Wilm Hosenfeld was an officer in the Germany army.
		says that all the available evidence suggests that Hosenfeld had consistently used his position as a German officer to help Jews and other people threatened by the Nazis.
		Thomas Vogel decided to put at the center of the book the documentation from the days of World War II (even so, with some excisions), and with respect to the earlier periods he confined himself to selected passages.
	blogs.clappingtrees.com /weblogs/scw_comments.php?id=373_0_19_0_C (923 words)

	classical music - andante - saved by chopin
		Wilm Hosenfeld's diary, which has survived, proves he knew plenty about the horror of that time — not only the mass gassings in the camps but also the trucks that the SS converted into mobile gas chambers before the camps were built.
		Hosenfeld survived the war — but in a Soviet camp at Stalingrad, sentenced to 25 years of forced labor for alleged espionage.
		In spite of his wife's pleas on behalf of their five children — not to mention appeals from others in Warsaw who also owed their lives to him — Hosenfeld died a Soviet prisoner in 1952 at the age of 57.
	www.andante.com /Article/article.cfm?id=13214&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords= (1234 words)

	Learning from a Legacy of Hate
		In the final moments of the war, having miraculously survived by eating whatever he could find and drinking frozen bath water, Szpilman is rescued by German Captain Wilm Hosenfeld.
		Hosenfeld learns that Szpilman is a pianist when he plays Chopin’s "Nocturned in C sharp minor" on an old, worn-down, out-of-tune piano.
		Captain Wilm Hosenfeld: “Thank God, not me. He wants us to survive.
	www.bsu.edu /learningfromhate/m_pianist.htm (404 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		Hosenfeld brought him food, an eiderdown and an overcoat.
		Ironically, Hosenfeld himself would die in a prisoner of war camp in the Soviet Union.
		Hosenfeld’s act stands against the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto and the complete devastation of an old and splendid city.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030214/asp/opinion/story_1664863.asp (538 words)

	Political Film Society - The Pianist
		One day, Captain Wilm Hosenfeld (played by Thomas Kretschmann), the local Nazi army commander, discovers Szpilman, asks him his occupation, and then asks him to play the piano.
		Near the end of the film, Hosenfeld begs a passing Jewish musician to ask Szpilman to come to his rescue for his kindness.
		However, Hosenfeld died in a Soviet POW camp, and Szpilman lived to publish his memoir in 1946, play for Polish radio again, and died at the age of eighty-eight.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/pianist.html (313 words)

	BiblioTravel: The Pianist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This particular edition also has extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld at the end (this section is discussed by Biermann).
		In the last time of the war, he was given blankets, food, and other essentials by a Nazi officer named Wilm Hosenfeld, whose diary revealed later to be a man with profound misgivings about Naziism all through the war.
		Many of the events are lifted straight from Szpilman's memoir; the two such moments I remember most clearly from the movie are a man licking soup off the road and the violinist who confronts Hosenfeld in a POW camp at the end.
	www.bibliotravel.com /books.php?book=638 (292 words)

	Wilm Hosenfeld (1895 - 1952) - Find A Grave Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in Mackenzell, Germany as the son of a catholic teacher.
		At the beginning of WWII his batallion went to Poland.
		After witnessing how the Nazis were treating Jews, Wilm a deeply religious man decided to help them.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12536116 (123 words)

	Avalon Reviews: The Pianist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is an equally wonderful scene where he comes face to face with a German officer near the end of the war.
		The officer is Wilm Hosenfeld who ended up saving Szpilman in the final stages of the war.
		Hosenfeld was most likely making a Jewish friend so that he could escape the postwar fallout of the German soldiers, but he may have also just been a good guy who knew when his time was up.
	www-personal.engin.umich.edu /~haquer/movies/raj/thepianist.html (1323 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)