Luczny, Alfons.

Luczny, Alfons, born 04-06-1894 in Katscher, Upper Silesia, joined the Army age 19, on 16-09-1913, as a Fahnenjunker in the 21^st Field Artillery Regiment. Alfons was in the fields as a Platoon leader and Battalion Officer with the 63^rd Infantry Regiment. He retired from the Army and joined the Police Service on 31-12-1920. He reactivated in the Wehrmacht as an Oberst and was the commander of the 13^th Flak Regiment at the begin of World War II.  He was on of the first to enter Austria for the union in 1938, a 800.000 would follow

. Two of his sons Hans-Joachim and Wolf-Dietrich were killed in action in 1940 and 1941. Luczny was successively commander of the Flak Regiment 33, 3 and 6 and commander of the Flak Searchlight Brigade until 31-01-1942. General of Luftwaffe Channel Islands to 30-09-1943 and Commander of the 2^nd Flak Division  and landed in the Führer Reserve on 29-12-1944. Chief of the Travel Staff with Chief of Wehrmacht Motor Transport Affairs OKW until 08-05-1945 and in US captivity. Luczny had the bad luck to be transferred into Soviet captivity on 25-12-1945 and was first released by the intervention of the Chancellor Konrad Adenauer  on 09-10-1955, In 1945, there were about four thousand POW camps spread across the country in the Soviet Union. At least four million people, the vast majority of them German soldiers, are often stuck here for years. Many thousands die of hunger, exh.

They are housed in large camps, often just a piece of steppe with meter-high barbed wire around it. The men lie on the frozen ground in torn clothing. The lucky ones are wearing worn-out boots, others have pieces of the dead’s clothing around their feet to protect against the icy Siberian wind that rages through the camp.

But cold, hunger and festering wounds are not the greatest torture for the prisoners. Lice have taken possession of the soldiers’ bodies, which are too weak to resist. The blood-sucking insects cover every spot and leave red, itchy bites everywhere. The layer of lice is so thick that they can be scraped together like flour in a barrel, reports military doctor Hans Dibold, who is caring for the dying. When death is near, the lice leave the body.

The German 6th Army under command of Generalfeldmarschall der Panzertruppe Paulus, Friedrich “der Lord”  surrendered in the Battle of Stalingrad, 91,000 of the survivors became prisoners of war raising the number to 170,000 in early 1943, but 85,000 died in the months following their capture at Stalingrad, with only approximately 6,000 of them surviving to be repatriated after the war and landed in Friedland. .

Death and burial ground of Luczny, Alfons.

   Living in Einbeck, Luczny died at the very old age of 91 and is buried with his wife Elfried, born Kondziella, who died on 04-02-1999, on the Central cemetery of Einbeck.

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