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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Hosenfeld keeps a freezing and starving Spzpilman hidden from the other Nazis rather than having him killed for being a Jew, who may have fought against them in the Warsaw Uprising.


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* TokenGoodTeammate: Captain Hosenfeld comes across a freezing and starving Szpilman hiding in the ruins of a house, and rather than having him killed, hides him and gives him food, on the condition Szpilman plays music for him from time to time. As the Nazis retreat Westward towards Germny itself, Hosenfeld gives Szpilman his coat so he can stay warm. When a concentration camp is liberated, several Jewish inmates mock the captured Nazis, and when one of them mentions he was violinist who worked with Szpilman at the radio station, Hosenfeld begs him to tell Szpilman to help him, as he kept him alive, only for a Soviet soldier to push Hosenfeld to the ground. One year after the war ended, the violinist tells Szpilman about Hosenfeld, and when they make their way to the camp, they discover that it was emptied months before. [[WhereAreTheyNow The Epilogue explains]] that [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Hosenfeld died in Soviet captivity in 1952]].

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