Wilm Hosenfeld

✶May 2, 1895

†August 13, 1952

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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.

German army officer (1895-1952)

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