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In the ring, you worry about the other guy, not the ring or the audience - unless the ring is in KL Auschwitz and there are killers in the audience.

➡️ Teddy Pietrzykowski, one of top Polish bantamweight boxers with amazing hand speed, superb footwork and impressive technique, defended Warsaw against the German invasion in 1939. Then, as Poland got under occupation, he decided to go to France, where the Polish Army was being rebuilt: the home country already felt like prison, and he was a fighter. Except the German Reich already had places for fighters like him, way worse than regular prisons.

➡️ Intercepted on the Hungarian-Yugoslav border, he was handed over to the Gestapo in occupied Poland; after questionings and beatings, they sent him to KL Auschwitz with the first transport of Poles. He became number 77, and, like other inmates, focused on surviving. 8 months and several beatings older, as well as some 12 kilograms lighter, he was barely hanging on when he heard of a kapo looking for someone to box with and offering bread.

➡️ Bread was a thrilling prospect, and this particular loaf was buttered with the satisfaction of payback. Teddy had been itching to have a go at kapos but knew that if he knocked down one, others would pile in and pound him into the ground. To have a kapo in the ring, rough him up a little and suffer no consequences was like Christmas coming early. The fact that kapo Dünning had 30 kilograms on him didn’t worry Pietrzykowski: the guy looked more like a brawler than boxer.

➡️ In the first round, Teddy beat the hell out of Dünning, while Dünning beat the hell out of the air around Teddy: he couldn’t hurt the 42-kilogram Pole, who danced around and landed punch after punch. Two left jabs, then a colossal roundhouse on the jaw, a body combination, all on target. The second round went along the same lines, until Teddy caught Dünning’s head with a left hook that snapped it around as if Commandant Höss himself had called the kapo’s name.

➡️ The blow drew blood and the German had enough; he complimented Pietrzykowski’s boxing skills, paid the promised reward and let him pick a work kommando. The mixed, inmate-kapo audience were left delighted or dismayed – but all of them equally gobsmacked by a kapo getting gob smacked and the prisoner getting away with it. From then on, Teddy fought regularly, always sharing the winnings with the hungry, and sometimes with volunteer heroes and saints.

➡️ Witold Pilecki was such a hero, who volunteered to come to Auschwitz, infiltrate it and set up resistance; in the spring 1941, he recruited Pietrzykowski to help the weakest inmates, collect information and sabotage the camp operation. The saint was Maximilian Kolbe; Teddy saw him beaten by a Vorarbeiter, and when he set on the man, the priest stopped him. It was just the attitude that made Kolbe volunteer to die for a perfect stranger in July 1941.

➡️ Over two years in Auschwitz, Teddy fought more than 40 kapos and inmates; for the former, he felt no mercy and treated them like punching bags; on the latter, he went easy, taking a few punches and working hard not to hurt the men. This bantamweight boxer became all weight classes champion, udefeated until February 1943, when Dutch 7-time light middleweight champ Leen Sanders took his title. In a rematch, Pietrzykowski TKO’d him and got it back.

➡️ Soon afterwards, the camp Gestapo became interested in the Weiss Nebel (White Fog), as the Germans called the quick Pole, and since most people who caught Gestapo’s attention ended up at Bloc 11 death wall, Teddy got himself a transfer. They sent him to Neuengamme in Hamburg, where he fought some 20 matches, the most famous of them against German sadist Schally Hottenbach, nicknamed Hammerschlag, Hammer Blow.

➡️ The man was said to have been a professional boxer before WWII, and weighed just shy of 90 kilograms. Before the fight, Hottenbach promised Pietrzykowski that he’d have him carried off the ring, and, given his 40-kilogram advantage over the small, wiry Pole, it seemed like no contest. At least until the second round, when the small, wiry Pole KO’d Hammerschlag with a beautiful uppercut, moving in a way Cassius Clay would watch with envy.

➡️ Liberation by the Allies found Teddy in Bergen-Belsen; after the war, he returned to Poland, and settled in Bielsko-Biała. He never got back on the ring – 5 years in concentration camps had taken their toll on his health – but got into training young boxers. Incidentally, Bielsko-Biała fighter Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, no relation to Teddy, came second in 1960 Olympics, losing the gold medal to Cassius Clay. Generational change with the name staying the same.

➡️ Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski hadn’t been so lucky – 60-odd fights, best part of his career, took place in concentration camps. Still, the rewards, a loaf of bread or some soup, tasted better than medals or fat checks. What felt even better was giving the spectators in striped uniforms the pleasure of watching kapos, representatives of the German Reich, go down with broken jaws, and counting them out.

➡️ Teddy Pietrzykowski, ladies and gentlemen, giving the Third Reich victims a preview of the Third Reich end.

➡️ Best part of his career.

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If you'd like to read about another Polish boxing champ from Auschwitz, check out this post: https://www.facebook.com/ipngovplEng/posts/549094570588036

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Pictured, Tadeusz "Teddy" Pietrzykowski shortly before WWII; photo in public domain.

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