German Officers Unaware That This Prisoner Is A Boxing Champion. Movie Recap

The story recap of the pre-war boxing champion Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski, who in 1940 arrives with the first transport of prisoners to the newly created Auschwitz cncntration camp.

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[njoysuccessnow]

I appreciated the boxing scenes because, they seemed realistic and believable and not overly dramatic like most boxing movies. The movie was really sad though. A depiction of true evil at its best.

[makukawakami]

Teddy has the heart of a champion. He's been beaten down so much but still gets up and swings harder, figuratively and literally.

[mieteksnopowiazaka]

Tadeusz Pietrzykowski was a Pole, not a Jew. Besides, the first prisoners in Auschwitz were Poles, Jews began to be sent to this German death camp only after the Wannsee Conference, on January 20, 1942, when the Germans agreed "the final solution to the Jewish question".
Those who say that there was no television then are wrong. The beginnings of television in Poland date back to 1938, when the first experimental television station was launched in Warsaw, broadcasting its signal from a skyscraper (at that time 20 floors) called the Prudential building, but the fights of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski were broadcasted in doubt.
Tadeusz Pietrzykowski is a living symbol of not only a great man, but also an athlete, he was a great man, although he fought in the "bantamweight"
I also recommend the story of St. Maksymilian Kolbe, who gave his life for his neighbor, volunteering for him to die by starvation, and also Captain Witold Pilecki, who volunteered to Auschwitz to establish a resistance movement there. These are heroes of flesh and blood, not some imaginary "superheroes" with capes, masks on their faces and "magic powers"

[dejiadeleye]

That right there truly is a champion. Someone who's beaten into the dirt and has everything stripped from them, and still comes out victorious. It's remarkable that this was a true story, I have mad respect for this dude.

[tomaszser]

"Tadeusz Pietrzykowski (Polish pronunciation: [taˈdɛuʂ pjɛtʂɨˈkɔfskʲi]; born 8 April 1917, Warsaw – died 17 April 1991, Bielsko-Biała) was a Polish boxer, Polish Armed Forces soldier, and a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Neuengamme concentration camps run by the German Nazis during World War II. He was part of the first mass transport to Auschwitz in June 1940, and was transferred to Neuengamme in 1943. He is remembered as the boxing champion of Auschwitz." Was Polish boxer and soldier.

[kacperz]

There's a quite important mistake that's being repeated by the narrator through the whole video: he's referring to the camp's CAPO as "german officers", which is of course wrong. CAPO were prisoners who had more rights in return for helping the guards to keep an eye on the rest of the prisoners. They were often very brute and cruel towards other prisoners, using their power over them.

[mannybaquero]

I think this man was a hero to say the least. He survived Auschwitz by boxing his way out of that hellhole. He would receive food whenever he won a boxing match which he shared with other inmates. May God bless his soul.

[ΙοΙοα-σκ]

Respect to this modern warrior. What an example to look at and immitate.

[tonyoliver]

"...and that he used to watch his boxing matches on all the time on TV"? Seriously?

[johnkendall]

It would be a little hard for a 15 year old to see a man boxing on television since Poland didn't have TV yet. Mistakes like this cause me to look elsewhere.

[jediridder]

the "german officer" 3:03 isnt a german officer but a kapo a.k.a a prisoner often jewish working as gaurd for the germans

[michelguevara]

the guy with the 'capo' armband is not a german, but an inmate working as overseer.
learn something about this history before making commentary.

[edenjs]

No matter how mant times I see these camps protrayed, I still find the cruelty and unthinking evil to be beyond comprehension.

[felixfranzen]

The guy supervising the workers who throws bread on the ground is obviously a capo and not a German officer. And so is the boxing afficionado who recognizes Teddy's skills, gives him food and takes him to the nazi camp admin people. He even wears an armband that says Capo. The capos were prisoners themselves who colloborated with the nazis in exchange for slightly better living conditions and a postponed execution date, effectively selling their own people out. On another note, is this remarkably similar to Triumph of the spirit with Willem Dafoe?

[carloflorez]

All the Politically correct Comments are exactly why this war started. Teddy was in a Concentration camp where most of us Priveledged Americans wouldn't last a week. If he wasn't Jewish then so what? He was there. I wasn't. An neither were you. The bottom line is COURAGE.❤️

[pawelbrzozowski]

Tadeusz Pietrzykowski was not a Jew. Please correct this description.

[Memorixt]

Many of those mentioned in the commentary as “German officers” were indeed Capos; prisoners themselves, used to guard and discipline the others in exchange of some privileges. Often they were more abusive as the guards themselfs, but some of them use their position rather to help.

[dannyhughes]

There was a true story about a Greek Jew, a former Boxing Champion, who was forced to fight other prisoners to stay alive, however the opponents were put to death as a punishment for losing.
It was made into a Movie as well but I imagine the reality was miles way from how it was scripted....and he had to live with himself for the rest of his life.

[ekulda]

The film squeezed many situations. The most effective was the one where he sees the young boy sick and he is helpless to do anything. Overall German atrocities were stated. But this was most touching to me when he sees the boy coughing.

[MELITO]

Teddy once said that he never wanted to KO Germans in first opportunity, but instead smash them peace by peace for whole length of the fight