10 Based On True Story Movies That Left Out The Craziest Part

After a family of Polish Jews are sent to an extermination camp, one of them, Wladyslaw Szpilman, gets separated. Two years later, he has sought refuge in an abandoned house in the Warsaw Ghetto. When a Wehrmacht officer called Wilm Hosenfeld discovers Szpilman, he decides not to turn him in. Instead, he feeds him and ensures none of the other Nazis locate him.

Several months later, Szpilman is rescued by former prisoners of the concentration camps. In the closing scene, a piece of text states Hosenfeld died in a Soviet camp in 1952.

However, it fails to mention that Szpilman was one of many people that Hosenfeld rescued. Although Hosenfeld was forced into joining the Nazi regime, he became disillusioned with their motives as soon as the war began. Throughout WWII, he visited Polish churches (which was illegal) and gave refuge to Poles. Over six years, Hosenfeld was responsible for stopping at least 60 Jews from being sent to concentration camps.

Although the film depicts Hosenfeld as a hero, what we see is only a glimpse of the altruism and nobility he committed during the war. It would've been nice if his other acts of heroism were mentioned in the epilogue.