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.
Yes that's an astute point, but what I see is the fighter spirit. He has that grit to fight and win. this movie is just a fraction of what he did while in Nazi custody.
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"
@@nawalalkaiwani bo "oni" często przypisują sobie zasługi Polaków. Rodzinie rotmistrza Pileckiego, proponowali pomoc w nakręceniu filmu o tym wielkim polskim bohaterze, pod warunkiem że się wspomni że miał rzekomo żydowskie korzenie, co jest oczywiście nieprawdą
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.
@@JohnSmith-un9jm Might have been on Channel Hebrew, The Jews had way more luxury than the poor Germans. A major influence to the rise of Hitler's Media Empire. Falsely labelled '' Propaganda''. imo
@@AdiGV what u say has truth in it. Victims often have the capability to replicate their miseries on others. And that's somewhat true in case of Israel and Palestine.
"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.
It was at least 2 of this polac top boxers in Auchwitz, with background from the Army of Poland. The other is the light weight Antoni "Kajtek" Czortek (2nd of july 1915-15 of January 2004) was a 4 times Polish boxing champion, 1939 silver medalist in the Amateur Championships of Europe, a multiple champion of Poland and a participant in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Chortek had also a simular fight as in the film with a German SS officer named Walter, He totally fighted against minimum 15 innmates (most bigger then him) + some SS-soldiers. In 1944 he was transferred to a other consentratiuon camp (Mauthausen-Gusen), and in the spring of 1945 was freed by the Americans.
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.
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.
There was also different levels as far as guards goes they were many guards at the camps that thought that they were just POWs some were they are fake and they were just guarding criminals guards were actually not allowed to interact with the prisoners that was illegal that could result in you getting shot by an SS battalion. When a lot of the lower level guards found out the police was a concentration camp many of them actually ran away some kill themselves some of them lived out the rest of their lives and never said a word about it.
@@Vampybattie you know there were Polish Jews or German Jews or russian Jews? and why u write "poles" starting from small letter? you are russian troll?
@@VampybattieMajority of kapo were german origin criminals but because of growing camps joined them political prisoners of other nationalities even Jews. So don't write " mostly Poles" because it's lie . You write Poles with small letter because you are rasist?
@@werefeat0356 so let me ask u a question was the place that people have been at a lie did people photoshop them back in 1945 when they took a picture the surviving people are lying as well 🤔 so ur telling me everyone who has had that story and the allies saved them so they were all lying
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.❤️
Well said I seen many of these comments. I agree, specifying race as if it's the most important fact is exactly the thinking of the early 1900's that led to these events.
Come on, you can't get mad at people for trying to help people know the correct history of something that shouldn't be forgotten, especially since the smallest details are the most important thing
@@aaronlewis2150 the devil is in the details. But if you focus on the devil you will become a demon. History has shown small details which are most of the time irrelevant or minor issues have been used as excuses for the political agendas and justification for racism. Nationalism and even war. Look at Ukraine for example Or Catalonian/Spain. Knowledge and truth can be a double edged sword. Like nuclear technology, without it no MRI machines. But no nukes, there was a time when Racial sciences was widely accepted among scholars leading to all sorts of mess, it was accepted as scientific fact by the greatest minds on the planet .. yet look what that caused Knowledge and intellectualism cannot solve everything. This is man's plight. The more we learn the worse we become. In short demanding somebody fix a small fact like if they are Jewish or not which is not even the subject That seems motivated by something to me. Especially when that nation has anti semetic issues going back a thousand years.
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?
I think it is. Jewish Greek Boxer Salamo Arouch. Salamo fought over 200 bouts during his time at Auschwitz May 43 to January 45 when he was released. Sadly his parents and siblings did not survive.
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.
@@DEVINdevdev No Boxing matches would be on the radio. I looked it up In Poland the first TV broadcast was 1952. NBC started in the US in the late 1940s
I coudn't believe what I was hearing too. The narrator also said someone got hit in the head by a "rock" when it was clearly a shovel. UA-cam is now littered with these accounts with little attention to detail. Ridiculous.
But there ware box games. Kid ware from Warsaw, Teddy was master of Poland ( i guess don't remember exactly) so if you ware interested in box for sure you would watch him live.
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.
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.
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.
TV was introduced in 1937 in Poland but was halted in 1939 by the war. TV did not return to Poland until 1952 seven years after the war. This does not mean the rest of the story was not true. The Haulocost was very real. There are too many people alive now who remember it. It was be a stretch to think they are all liars. Too much video to deny it.
@@roderickreilly9666 That is not true ! The BBC started experimental TV broadcasts in 1932 and the worlds first regular high definition broadcasts in 1936. These broadcasts only stopped when war broke out in 1939, but resumed afterwards.
@@roderickreilly9666 You claimed 'Nobody had TV at that time,' but that's not true. In Britain it most definitely was available to the general public, and that's my point.
@@f-empire-8 what does that even mean? ........if that's supposed to be a joke, that's disturbing and clearly you don't know much about the Holocaust and it's victims.
@@happymealsareyumm I probably don't know as much as you.. but it wasn't a joke. It was indicated that a high number of Polish in the camps were not Jewish. If I was making a joke it would start with, a Jew walked into a bathroom....
Hard to watch Despicable treatment of these individuals doing this heinous and sad part of our history but I loved how he gave everything he had through his achievements
There's actually another episode, a movie on a Greek Jewish boxer in Auschwitz called Triumph of the Spirit. He actually survived the notorious Holocaust.
The beginnings of television in Poland date back to 1938, when the first experimental television station was launched in Warsaw. It was a public television station, the program of which is currently broadcast under the name TVP1.
I'm doubtful about the part where it says his boxing matches were shown on TV back then. I once saw a movie where Willem Dafoe played this boxer but I can't recall its name.
I've noticed that the lector has made a mistake multiple times when narrating. The term "german officer" was mentioned a lot of times when it should be actually "KAPO"...The kapos weren't german officers...often they weren't even germans...KAPOs were other prisoners from the concentration camp who were asigned to be the guards within that concentration camp...Kapos were known for their brutality towards the other prisoners, in exchange for their work they were offered many privilages like proper food, no hard labour, better accomodation, etc...Kapos could be of any nationality...could be german, but also Polish, Ukrainian or even Jewish...
I lived in Israel for 2 years , when I watched this it made my soul sick with sadness What are the most catastrophic human acts of cowardness repulsiveness to human beings But joyful for the boxer What an incredible story 🙏🏼 Of having faith 🕊️ To get up & fight ✨🦅🙏🏼💪
My dad was stationed in Grafenwohr Germany in 1962 when I was 6 years old. There was a jewish tailor who my dad befriended. I remember that tailor wearing his shirtsleeves rolled up and a number tattooed on his arm. He was a survivor or Auschwitz and had been scheduled to be burned in the ovens within days of the brave American soldiers defeating the German army and liberating him and his fellow prisoners. My dad asked him why he would roll up his sleeves even in the winter and he replied "I want to remind myself and the Germans what they did to us". I remember that like it was yesterday.
TV before or during WWII? It was invented, but hardly a common thing. The first television program in the US didn't start until 1948. Most people didn't yet have a television set in the 40s.
This seems to be a great story. I love such kind of stories. What is the actual title? Kindly avail to us a complete movie to watch if you can. Thanks in advance.
Actually, who the narrator describes as a German Officer, who threw scraps to the prisoners is a Kapo, a prisoner who Police's the other prisoner on work details.
Very interesting story. I find it interesting that the man is polish. It displays how the Germans treated the polish during the war, but know one I investigates why the Germans treated the polish that way. It's always part of a story that never gets told. It's not a popular one, but a. Interesting story none the less.
Yes, I also investigated into this matter and read many contemporary reports and books etc for years. But no one wants to know about the atrocities committed by the poles to the german minority in Poland prior to the outbreak of ww2. So sad to read.
@@michaelhenter2856 Right, because people are conditioned by language/culture to see the world in dualistic terms, and to ignore or distort the objective causes and effects of events in favor of rationalizing the superiority of their own tribal/ideological/ethnic/religious identity group. It reinforces the ego and ensures that the cycle of brutality continues unabated within the consciousness of humanity.
The kid said he watched him on the tv all the time? When would a kid in the 40’s watch a tv? What before the war? So in the late 30’s? Don’t think the tv was available then.
in Poland there was experimental tv station in 1938 but still it would be imposible for kid to watch it maybe kid is from USA when television appeared earlier or he was time traveler? still better than Twilight
I thanked God when I saw the broken half starved prisoner won the fight against the well fed Germans. I'm reminded of the what the Scriptures said, " MY POWER SHALL BE MADE PERFECT IN YOUR WEAKNESS ".
Right away I hear a mistake in this commentary when the person speaking when the person speaking says a young boy in the camp saw Teddy on TV! TV?? There wasn’t any TV available anywhere in Europe in the 1930’s or 40’s ! Just radio or newspapers.
There were 2 boxers in Poland with last name Pietrzykowski. Tadeusz (Teddy) Pietrzykowski ,prisoner of Auschwitz I and Zbigniew Pietrzykowski who fought with Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) in Olympic games in Rome.People in Poland could watch him on TV in 1964.For younger generation in Poland both of them are unfortunately mostly forgotten.
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.
Yes that's an astute point, but what I see is the fighter spirit. He has that grit to fight and win. this movie is just a fraction of what he did while in Nazi custody.
Teddy has the heart of a champion. He's been beaten down so much but still gets up and swings harder, figuratively and literally.
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"
they said he was born in Warsaw where did you get he was a Jew from
@@nawalalkaiwani bo "oni" często przypisują sobie zasługi Polaków. Rodzinie rotmistrza Pileckiego, proponowali pomoc w nakręceniu filmu o tym wielkim polskim bohaterze, pod warunkiem że się wspomni że miał rzekomo żydowskie korzenie, co jest oczywiście nieprawdą
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.
True story! Lol Just like the kid seeing the boxer on TV???
Deji Adeleys, I like what you said 👍
@@JohnSmith-un9jm Might have been on Channel Hebrew, The Jews had way more luxury than the poor Germans.
A major influence to the rise of Hitler's Media Empire. Falsely labelled '' Propaganda''. imo
Now imagine the Jews are Palestinians and Germany as Israel. You don’t think worse is happening there do you?
@@AdiGV what u say has truth in it. Victims often have the capability to replicate their miseries on others. And that's somewhat true in case of Israel and Palestine.
"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.
He was a better man than any of his captors, Nazi bastards
Thank you for more info
Thank you for the info.
It was at least 2 of this polac top boxers in Auchwitz, with background from the Army of Poland. The other is the light weight Antoni "Kajtek" Czortek (2nd of july 1915-15 of January 2004) was a 4 times Polish boxing champion, 1939 silver medalist in the Amateur Championships of Europe, a multiple champion of Poland and a participant in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Chortek had also a simular fight as in the film with a German SS officer named Walter, He totally fighted against minimum 15 innmates (most bigger then him) + some SS-soldiers. In 1944 he was transferred to a other consentratiuon camp (Mauthausen-Gusen), and in the spring of 1945 was freed by the Americans.
Thanks . I was think it was complete bs. Now I know. Knowledge is power and lest we forget.
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.
Nibba it’s a fictional story 😂😂😂😂
@@burnsbooks69 Wrong dude, it's NOT a fictional story. Read up before you make an ASS of yourself.
@@burnsbooks69 actually it is based on true events, and Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski was genuine person - camp number 77.
MAY GOD BLESS THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO GOT KILLED IN DRESDEN!
@@burnsbooks69 its a real story there was a guy like that from Poland and he really fought in auschwitz
"...and that he used to watch his boxing matches on all the time on TV"? Seriously?
people buy everything. Live stream i bet.
TV???? Maybe listed to his fights on radio...or maybe saw highlights on a newsreel...tv😮
When I heard that I quit watching.
Germany had TV during the war. It was the first country to do so.
Germany had TV during the war. It was the first country to do so.
Respect to this modern warrior. What an example to look at and immitate.
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.
He Mentioned ''Television''
@@ThePolishTraveller but the capo weren't Jewish. They were either German, Polish or other nationalities. Jewes were never capo.
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
They weren’t always Jews, some were just regular concentration camp inmates such as Poles, Soviets etc.
Majority of time Kapo weren’t Jews but mostly poles, Russian even German etc basically political prisoners
There was also different levels as far as guards goes they were many guards at the camps that thought that they were just POWs some were they are fake and they were just guarding criminals guards were actually not allowed to interact with the prisoners that was illegal that could result in you getting shot by an SS battalion. When a lot of the lower level guards found out the police was a concentration camp many of them actually ran away some kill themselves some of them lived out the rest of their lives and never said a word about it.
@@Vampybattie you know there were Polish Jews or German Jews or russian Jews?
and why u write "poles" starting from small letter?
you are russian troll?
@@VampybattieMajority of kapo were german origin criminals but because of growing camps joined them political prisoners of other nationalities even Jews. So don't write " mostly Poles" because it's lie . You write Poles with small letter because you are rasist?
No matter how mant times I see these camps protrayed, I still find the cruelty and unthinking evil to be beyond comprehension.
Because it never happened???
@@werefeat0356 so let me ask u a question was the place that people have been at a lie did people photoshop them back in 1945 when they took a picture the surviving people are lying as well 🤔 so ur telling me everyone who has had that story and the allies saved them so they were all lying
@@boulderman1357 Censorship is not your friend.
@@werefeat0356 yeah I wanna hear ur side of the story such a shame
@@boulderman1357 Censorship blocks me. And NO you don't. Not really.
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.❤️
Well said I seen many of these comments. I agree, specifying race as if it's the most important fact is exactly the thinking of the early 1900's that led to these events.
Come on, you can't get mad at people for trying to help people know the correct history of something that shouldn't be forgotten, especially since the smallest details are the most important thing
@@aaronlewis2150 the devil is in the details. But if you focus on the devil you will become a demon. History has shown small details which are most of the time irrelevant or minor issues have been used as excuses for the political agendas and justification for racism. Nationalism and even war. Look at Ukraine for example Or Catalonian/Spain. Knowledge and truth can be a double edged sword. Like nuclear technology, without it no MRI machines. But no nukes, there was a time when Racial sciences was widely accepted among scholars leading to all sorts of mess, it was accepted as scientific fact by the greatest minds on the planet
.. yet look what that caused Knowledge and intellectualism cannot solve everything. This is man's plight. The more we learn the worse we become.
In short demanding somebody fix a small fact like if they are Jewish or not which is not even the subject
That seems motivated by something to me. Especially when that nation has anti semetic issues going back a thousand years.
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Thank you Carlo 🙏 much respect..
the guy with the 'capo' armband is not a german, but an inmate working as overseer.
learn something about this history before making commentary.
there were German inmates in KK (criminals) serving as kapos
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?
Thanks for this unknown but most elucidating fact.
I think it is. Jewish Greek Boxer Salamo Arouch. Salamo fought over 200 bouts during his time at Auschwitz May 43 to January 45
when he was released. Sadly his parents and siblings did not survive.
Weren’t they also called judenrat?
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.
This bothered me too. did they even broadcast boxing matches in that era, i mean even in usa for eample.
@@DEVINdevdev No Boxing matches would be on the radio. I looked it up In Poland the first TV broadcast was 1952. NBC started in the US in the late 1940s
Radio was the only device used in homes back then for communication to the masses.
I coudn't believe what I was hearing too. The narrator also said someone got hit in the head by a "rock" when it was clearly a shovel. UA-cam is now littered with these accounts with little attention to detail. Ridiculous.
@James Blaine bullshite
01:25 how on earth could the kid watch teddy’s fights on t.v. T.v wasn’t available at the time.
But there ware box games. Kid ware from Warsaw, Teddy was master of Poland ( i guess don't remember exactly) so if you ware interested in box for sure you would watch him live.
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.
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.
Thus story here is also true. Boxer was called Tadeusz Pietrzykowski.
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.
what horse shit
That is known true. But that doesn´t water down the responsibility of the SS guards.
@@robajzrobajzovity8474 Absolutely agreed; even more: makes it worse. (Ab)using others to do your dirty work is even more filthy.
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
The video says that the young boy told our hero that he recognized him by watching him on TV problem is they didn't have TV back then.
TV was introduced in 1937 in Poland but was halted in 1939 by the war. TV did not return to Poland until 1952 seven years after the war. This does not mean the rest of the story was not true. The Haulocost was very real. There are too many people alive now who remember it. It was be a stretch to think they are all liars. Too much video to deny it.
Teddy was not Jewish but Polish. Also for the young boy to have watched him on TV is highly unlikely as Poland didn't have TV at that time.
All right, Herr Nazi. As you say.
NOBODY had TV at that time
@@roderickreilly9666
That is not true !
The BBC started experimental TV broadcasts in 1932 and the worlds first regular high definition broadcasts in 1936. These broadcasts only stopped when war broke out in 1939, but resumed afterwards.
@@johnbrereton5229 a quibble. TV for the general public, AND MOST ESPECIALLY POLAND, was not available until after WWII-- period.
@@roderickreilly9666
You claimed 'Nobody had TV at that time,' but that's not true.
In Britain it most definitely was available to the general public, and that's my point.
Tadeusz Pietrzykowski was not a Jew. Please correct this description.
Polish people always shows their hatred
I thought it seemed a little off when he went back to Poland xD
@@f-empire-8 what does that even mean? ........if that's supposed to be a joke, that's disturbing and clearly you don't know much about the Holocaust and it's victims.
@@happymealsareyumm I probably don't know as much as you.. but it wasn't a joke. It was indicated that a high number of Polish in the camps were not Jewish.
If I was making a joke it would start with, a Jew walked into a bathroom....
But a victim of Nazi Swine.
There was no television in those days, so the kid could not have watched Teddy on TV.
When was television functional? Do you know?
@@sonofizzy Yes, I do. But why are you asking me? Doesn't your omputer have a search function?
Newsreels back then, sheesh. Not top quality narration, that's all.
@@leehaelters6182 He didn't say newsreels, he said television. "Newsreels" is a different word than "television." Sheesh.
@@TheAutoChannel, yrs, I know damn well you all are complaining about the poor scripting of the narration. You missed the point. Sheesh!
Hard to watch Despicable treatment of these individuals doing this heinous and sad part of our history but I loved how he gave everything he had through his achievements
There's actually another episode, a movie on a Greek Jewish boxer in Auschwitz called Triumph of the Spirit. He actually survived the notorious Holocaust.
The beginnings of television in Poland date back to 1938, when the first experimental television station was launched in Warsaw. It was a public television station, the program of which is currently broadcast under the name TVP1.
Hitlers 1st started the gas chamber in poland
TV didn't happen in the USA until the late 40s early 50s.
RESPECT for that guy.
Never expected this to be a happy ending.
the is one problem with this narrative and there was no TV in Poland in 1939 or the early 40's period
It was actually radio
@@alanwayte432 All sports were broadcast on the radio but the narrative announced TV.
OK, so they watched it on Netflix.
THE CHAMPION OF AUSCHWITZ, that's the title!!!
A good story, except for at 1:27 when the teenage boy says he used to watch him box on TV, there was radio during WWII, but no TV's .
Good move+++++. Honest. German officer. And strong prisoner Best story. I like it
The boy is telling Teddy that he watched his boxing matches on TV?? There was no TV yet at the time.
At 1:24 we hear, "He watched all his boxing matches on TV"? Sure guy, there was TV in the 1930's.
After all Pietrzykowski said: "I was always loved to see germans crying and begging for mercy" :)
I'm doubtful about the part where it says his boxing matches were shown on TV back then. I once saw a movie where Willem Dafoe played this boxer but I can't recall its name.
Absolutely correct Poland did not get TV until 1952 full stop this whole thing reeks of bulshit
it didnt its narrator fault and its hurt me that its real polish story and people think its bullshit he saw him in the ring he never saw him in tv
I've noticed that the lector has made a mistake multiple times when narrating. The term "german officer" was mentioned a lot of times when it should be actually "KAPO"...The kapos weren't german officers...often they weren't even germans...KAPOs were other prisoners from the concentration camp who were asigned to be the guards within that concentration camp...Kapos were known for their brutality towards the other prisoners, in exchange for their work they were offered many privilages like proper food, no hard labour, better accomodation, etc...Kapos could be of any nationality...could be german, but also Polish, Ukrainian or even Jewish...
you are right!
Everone doesnt knows every details ,so i find it interesting and thanx for sharing these story....
What German officer?! He's a kapo, a prisoner himself.
I lived in Israel for 2 years , when I watched this it made my soul sick with sadness What are the most catastrophic human acts of cowardness repulsiveness to human beings
But joyful for the boxer
What an incredible story 🙏🏼
Of having faith 🕊️
To get up & fight ✨🦅🙏🏼💪
Why mention that youve lived in Israel for 2 years? (What relation does it have to the story above)
"use to watch his boxing matches on TV"
I did not know they hade TVs in 1940 and sport canals..........what a story.
What a story only an experienced conman could think this story up.
My dad was stationed in Grafenwohr Germany in 1962 when I was 6 years old. There was a jewish tailor who my dad befriended. I remember that tailor wearing his shirtsleeves rolled up and a number tattooed on his arm. He was a survivor or Auschwitz and had been scheduled to be burned in the ovens within days of the brave American soldiers defeating the German army and liberating him and his fellow prisoners. My dad asked him why he would roll up his sleeves even in the winter and he replied "I want to remind myself and the Germans what they did to us". I remember that like it was yesterday.
russian scum soldiers* not American
Seriously these movies with the horrid history need to be shown more so people don't repeat history
If the horrid people that caused that history were dealt with correctly there wouldn't be repeats.
First prisoners in Auschwitz was just Polish people. Teddy was Polish too. Why there is no mention about it in this video?
Because US is own by Jews.
Looks so good, but strangly I can't find the name of the movie. What is it called please? Thank you
Amazing story. Thanks for sharing with us. Peace
This heroic man truly came from god!
He was a Polish Muslim.
Why? Was ''god'' to busy to do something about the Nazis?
Don't spread lies. Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski was not a Jew, he was a Pole - please update the title.
A mistake, not a lie. Much of the explanation is juvenile.
it was a convenient mistake, not for the poles
It's a mistake not a lie now don't bitch about it
You must listen and understand the whole story after you criticizing..
@@jbgumban8633 to much work
'Watch on TV'? Are you kidding?
No kidding, I thought I had not heard correctly and played it back.....
TV before or during WWII? It was invented, but hardly a common thing. The first television program in the US didn't start until 1948. Most people didn't yet have a television set in the 40s.
Sept. 11.1928
But anyway you are right or not...
Watched him fight on TV? Say it ain't so! Must have been on one of the ESPN original channels.
Newsreels.
@@leehaelters6182 Narrator said TV not newsreels. Check for yourself at 1:20. That was my point!
This seems to be a great story. I love such kind of stories. What is the actual title?
Kindly avail to us a complete movie to watch if you can.
Thanks in advance.
The Champion
1:27 he used to watch his boxing matches on TV? I don't think TV was around in those days.
Ich mag diese kleinen Ungenauigkeiten wie TV in den 30er Jahren in Polen.
There was no TV in Europe prior to 2WW .
Hell of a narrating job!
Good but I don't think that in 1940 people had TV to watch Teddy as it is said in the video !
We need more people like'Teddy' in the world..
And ancient TVs in museums.
At the 1:20 mark the narrator says, "he tells him he used to watch all his boxing matches on TV" In the early 1940's !????? WTF?? Who you crappin'???
Actually, who the narrator describes as a German Officer, who threw scraps to the prisoners is a Kapo, a prisoner who Police's the other prisoner on work details.
"Watch all the boxing matches on tv" you sure about that?
there was no TV during WW II!
This agreat story ;Thanks
I knew a friend who was in Buna prison camp. He was in Auschwitz also. He said Buna was worse than Auschwitz.
So what if he said that?
Watching him boxing on tv? Funny!
what is the name of this movie..didnt understand
How on earth could that boy have watched boxing on TV at that time in history?
Newsreels, not television, that's all.
it could be cronicle in cinema but first TV in Poland was in 1936-1937
Very interesting story. I find it interesting that the man is polish. It displays how the Germans treated the polish during the war, but know one I investigates why the Germans treated the polish that way. It's always part of a story that never gets told. It's not a popular one, but a. Interesting story none the less.
There have been libraries of books written about this, but most people don't read. They just watch Tik-Tock shorts.
Yes, I also investigated into this matter and read many contemporary reports and books etc for years. But no one wants to know about the atrocities committed by the poles to the german minority in Poland prior to the outbreak of ww2. So sad to read.
@@michaelhenter2856 Right, because people are conditioned by language/culture to see the world in dualistic terms, and to ignore or distort the objective causes and effects of events in favor of rationalizing the superiority of their own tribal/ideological/ethnic/religious identity group. It reinforces the ego and ensures that the cycle of brutality continues unabated within the consciousness of humanity.
@@michaelhenter2856 What atrocities? Too much of Goebbels' propaganda made you brainwashed.
Its because Poland didnt want to share Gdańsk with german and we was the first that give them trouble so they hated us for that
The kid said he watched him on the tv all the time? When would a kid in the 40’s watch a tv? What before the war? So in the late 30’s? Don’t think the tv was available then.
in Poland there was experimental tv station in 1938 but still it would be imposible for kid to watch it
maybe kid is from USA when television appeared earlier or he was time traveler?
still better than Twilight
I have toured Auschwitz twice. One can almost hear the cries of the prisoners that were interned there.
Story of Strogoff next pls
The boy was watching Teddy's boxing matches on TV? before 1940 in Poland? uh...?
I thanked God when I saw the broken half starved prisoner won the fight against the well fed Germans. I'm reminded of the what the Scriptures said, " MY POWER SHALL BE MADE PERFECT IN YOUR WEAKNESS ".
What about the scriptures that say if a man smite you on your left cheek, turn and offer your right as well?
I seriously doubt the child watched the boxer on tv in the late 1930's and early 1940's. Outside that it's interesting.
Newsreels, sheesh.
To be more precise,the boy was watching boxing matches on 90 inch flat screen HD 1920/1080 resolution.
3:18 OK!!! i'm stopping you right there, that is not a german officer that's a prisoner as well, look up Sonderkommando
How can the kid watch Teddy’s boxing matches on TV years before television was invented??? Fail.
Right away I hear a mistake in this commentary when the person speaking when the person speaking says a young boy in the camp saw Teddy on TV! TV?? There wasn’t any TV available anywhere in Europe in the 1930’s or 40’s ! Just radio or newspapers.
I enjoy this channel a lot
bro tv's was military technology then
One prisoner used to watch the main character boxing on TV? In the 1930's in Poland, really?
There were 2 boxers in Poland with last name Pietrzykowski.
Tadeusz (Teddy) Pietrzykowski ,prisoner of
Auschwitz I and Zbigniew Pietrzykowski who fought with Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) in Olympic games in Rome.People in Poland could watch him on TV in 1964.For younger generation in Poland both of them are unfortunately mostly forgotten.
@@jaset362 Sure in 1964 it makes sense. In the 1930's, it does not.
started stitching boxes for little kids... there is always a zinger in these.
Historical problem There was no tv in the early 1940s to watch anything, let alone boxing matches.
Movie name please
Watched him on TV, There was no TV back in the Nazi Regime , in the 1930's. Hahahahaha
He couldn’t watch his matches on TV. This is WWII. Remember 1939 to 1945! No TV to watch.
See him on TV in 1940??? Is this a translation error or an anachronism in the film?
What they didn't have any TV program ever in the 1930s or early 1940s?
On TV? There was no TV back then!
great documentary
What's the name of the movie?
Did I hear correctly .... when the young lad said he had watched the Polish Boxer on T.V. ...REALLY in Poland during WW2????????????
Cinematic Liberty. That's all. They do it all the time.
this story shows the insane cruelty of people
0:36 THE FIRST AUSCHWITZ?????!!! i dunno are there more??
You need to learn German rank system. As almost none in this movie are "German Officers".
The So-called German Officer who fought Teddy is wearing the Armband of a Capo..
The inverted red triangle was for political prisoners....