Poland: a book accusing "The Pianist" of being collaborators of the Nazis
In the book 'the defendants: Great Wier, "she says Wladyslaw Szpilman did spy for the Gestapo
MILAN - from victims of Nazi atrocities alleged collaborator with the Gestapo. Its painful biography told in Oscar-winning "The Pianist" by Roman Polanski moved the world. But apparently not been told the whole truth about Wladyslaw Szpilman, the celebrated musician deported to the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II and escaped to a certain death thanks to the kindness of an officer of the Wehrmacht. This version of events is challenged by the new book by journalist Polish Agata Tuszynski entitled accused: Great Wier, "dedicated to the life and vicissitudes of the homonymous singer. The slogan of the book "The other side of the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman" is a real indictment of the famous pianist, who died in 2000, which is often called a spy of the Gestapo.
VERSION OF GRAN Wier - The Polish journalist he met Grand Wier, who before and after the war was one of the most talented cabaret singers and actresses in Europe over the last years of his life. The United died in 2007, but before you exhale his last breath he told his version of events. The singer shared the experience in the ghetto, Szpilman and several witnesses told how the two not run bad blood. In private letters to the singer Szpilman defines as' a member of a gang that wanted to kill me. " In addition, the musician is also identified as a "man of the Gestapo" who worked as a police officer to identify the Jews in the city.
a dark past - The past of the great musician of the accuser is not at all clear. The day after the Nazi defeat the Great was actually tried as a Nazi collaborator, but the charges dropped for lack of evidence. New crimes were charged in the year after and for this was forced to abandon Israel, a country where she had moved a little earlier, and emigrated to France where he worked with the likes of Maurice Chevalier and Charles Aznavour. In Polanski's film, which incorporates an autobiography entitled "Śmierć Miasta" ("Death of a city) of the musician, the United appears in the guise of the ambiguous" Lady K ", a very attractive, but of dubious morality.
bewilderment and bitterness - The book, however, has caused great confusion among the survivors of the Warsaw ghetto Szpilman who have personally known such as former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, who called the statements by the Great "outrageous and baseless." Andrzej, the son of the musician, said he was very disappointed, "After the war my father published his diaries and none of the survivors of the ghetto criticized his version of events - said in an interview with German weekly Spiegel - My father was a victim of Nazism, not a collaborator. I do not want his name, which has become a symbol for my country, tarnished and humiliated. "
VERSION OF GRAN Wier - The Polish journalist he met Grand Wier, who before and after the war was one of the most talented cabaret singers and actresses in Europe over the last years of his life. The United died in 2007, but before you exhale his last breath he told his version of events. The singer shared the experience in the ghetto, Szpilman and several witnesses told how the two not run bad blood. In private letters to the singer Szpilman defines as' a member of a gang that wanted to kill me. " In addition, the musician is also identified as a "man of the Gestapo" who worked as a police officer to identify the Jews in the city.
a dark past - The past of the great musician of the accuser is not at all clear. The day after the Nazi defeat the Great was actually tried as a Nazi collaborator, but the charges dropped for lack of evidence. New crimes were charged in the year after and for this was forced to abandon Israel, a country where she had moved a little earlier, and emigrated to France where he worked with the likes of Maurice Chevalier and Charles Aznavour. In Polanski's film, which incorporates an autobiography entitled "Śmierć Miasta" ("Death of a city) of the musician, the United appears in the guise of the ambiguous" Lady K ", a very attractive, but of dubious morality.
bewilderment and bitterness - The book, however, has caused great confusion among the survivors of the Warsaw ghetto Szpilman who have personally known such as former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, who called the statements by the Great "outrageous and baseless." Andrzej, the son of the musician, said he was very disappointed, "After the war my father published his diaries and none of the survivors of the ghetto criticized his version of events - said in an interview with German weekly Spiegel - My father was a victim of Nazism, not a collaborator. I do not want his name, which has become a symbol for my country, tarnished and humiliated. "
Francesco Tortora
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