Der Kapitän: Roman (German Edition)

Christian Standard Bible The commander replied, "I bought this citizenship for a large amount of money. Contemporary English Version The commander then said, "I paid a lot of money to become a Roman citizen. Holman Christian Standard Bible The commander replied, "I bought this citizenship for a large amount of money. International Standard Version Then the tribune replied, "I paid a lot of money for this citizenship of mine.

American Standard Version And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this citizenship. And Paul said, But I am a Roman born. Douay-Rheims Bible And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city with a great sum.

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But I was born so. Darby Bible Translation And the chiliarch answered, I, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. Helmut born , Anemone , Detlev , Jorinde and Uta Like many Germans, he saw the Nazis as a movement of national recovery after the humiliating German defeat of and the serious crisis of the postwar period.

Wilm was again called up in August When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, , Wilm was 44 years old. He was sent to Poland in the middle of that month with the rank of sergeant as part of an infantry battalion belonging to the Landwehr, a militia that framed men aged between 35 and 45 years. At the end of September he was sent to Pabianice, participating in the construction and custody of a Polish prisoner of war camp.

Wilm was a kind and gentle man, who was not afraid to show himself talking to Jews and picking up Polish children. On one occasion, when he was riding a bicycle near Pabianice, he met a young Jewish girl who was running along the road.

When asked where she was going, she answered scared, telling him she was pregnant and that her husband is imprisoned in the prison camp. He was going there to ask for his release. On another occasion, Wilm learned that the Gestapo, the fearsome secret police of the Third Reich, had gathered several men , including the brother-in-law of a Polish priest.

Wilm saw the truck with the prisoners and told an SS officer that he needed a man for a job. From among the prisoners who were in the truck, Wilm chose the brother-in-law of the priest, the one who was going to be shot, pretending to choose at random. By then Wilm was already disenchanted with Nazism, witnessing the atrocities perpetrated by his countrymen against the Poles , both Catholics and Jews.

In his letters to his wife, and in spite of the risk he was running -owing to the post-war censorship- he expressed his disgust for communism and nazism, which he considered equally criminal ideologies remember that Germany and the USSR had divided Poland in , committing numerous atrocities in their respective occupation zones. He also expressed in these letters his shame for the crimes committed by the Germans in Poland: Have they freed criminals and disturbed people from psychiatric hospitals that function like rabid dogs? Unfortunately, no, these are the people who occupy high positions in our country.

His faith in God gave him strength in the midst of this horror, and also encouraged him to help the persecuted. Once there, his sympathy for the Poles led him to learn the Polish language. Being a Catholic, he often went to Mass in a Polish church and received Communion. Soon he began to provide false documents to some Poles, including Jews, managing to save their lives.

He often employed them in the sports school of the Wehrmacht that Wilm directed in Warsaw. We will not listen to the divine commandment: On June 16, , Wilm wrote in his diary, horrified, referring to the crimes committed by the Germans during the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto: It is beyond understanding.

Now the last remains of the Jewish inhabitants of the ghetto are being exterminated. The whole ghetto has been destroyed by fire.

These brutes think that we will win the war in that way. But we have lost the war with this frightful mass murder of the Jews. On August 13, , he wrote in his diary: Yesterday I saw two of these beasts on the tram. They held whips in their hands when they left the ghetto. What cowards we are, wishing to be better and allowing all this to happen.

Because of this, we will also be punished, and our innocent children after us, because by allowing these bad actions to happen, we are partakers of the guilt. Many innocent people must be sacrificed before the guilt over the blood we have incurred can be extinguished. Another person Wilm helped during the war was Leon Warm, a Jew who had escaped from the Treblinka extermination camp. The German officer protected him and got him fake documents, risking his own life with it.

Wilm also saved the life of the priest Antoni Cieciora, a member of the Polish resistance who was on the wanted list by the Gestapo. Wilm gave him a job after providing false documents. On March 29, , the 27 Poles whom Wilm had employed at the Wehrmacht sports school in Warsaw signed a thank-you document to the man who had helped them. Next to the document they gave him an image of the Virgin of Czestochowa, because they knew that the officer was Catholic. This shows the popularity that Wilm had among his Polish acquaintances due to his humanity. After the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising on August 1, , Wilm served in the German counterintelligence , dealing with the interrogation of members of the Polish resistance and Soviet soldiers.

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During the interrogations, Wilm tried to help members of the Polish resistance, whose courage he admired. That same month, Wilm sent his wife his diary in which he recounted the atrocities he had contemplated hidden in a package of clothes.

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There he had an unexpected encounter that would take him to fame many years later: Szpilman was a pianist who had become famous playing for Polish Radio before the war and who had been sheltering there since August When Wilm discovered him, Szpilman thought he was going to arrest him, but instead, when he told the German officer who was a pianist, Wilm asked him to play something on a piano that was on the ground floor of the building. You can see in this video Szpilman himself playing that same piece in at his home in Warsaw: Wilm helped the pianist to improve his hiding place and brought him food frequently, even giving him his coat to protect him from the freezing temperatures of the Polish winter.

Szpilman did not know the name of the German officer until In the film, the role of Wilm was made by the German actor Thomas Kretschmann.