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Hans-Ulrich von Luck und Witten

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  1. PanzerGrenadier

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    Hello,

    I am new at this website and wanted to know if anybody had some more information about Colonel Hans von Luck's personal life after the war. I read "Panzer Commander" and "Rommel Lieautenants" which provided some good information (i.e. businessman, married twice (once to a woman named Regina), three children, etc.). But nothing in detail, are his children and wife still alive? Any interviews ever given by either Colonel von Luck or his family about his life? and more...

    If anybody can provide details about this man's life I would be grateful...thank you in advance...

    PG
     
  2. C.Evans

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    I have not read more than you have. His book did give a good insight at what he did after being released from Russian captivity. It's been years since I last read the book-and intend to do so again-just never enough time. Anyway, one thing that sticks clearly in my mind is that he had hidden his Knights Cross in a carved wooden box that he managed to get it back to Germany-which still had his KC in it-only for some scumbag thief who broke into his apartment and stold the wooden box-not knowing in it was a Knights Cross.
     
  3. maxdenormandie

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    Hans Von Luck have a family???? wife ?? son??
     
  4. sunny971

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    Yea in panzer commander he even talks about this girl named Dagmar... he loved her very much throughout the war, he even asked her to mary him, which she approved. However when he asked for permission from HQ to marry his girl he was denied because she was 1/8th jewish with aryian rights. He could if he was a reserve officer, but as an active officer he was denied permission.

    But he was married (for the second time) and has 3 sons. Now i'm not sure if any of his children or wife are alive. But i'd imagine there are living relatives. Von Luck died in 1997. He had quite an interesting war life. For Rommel fans he is one of his closest men in the Afrika campaign. Panzer commander is an adventurous read.


    Here's a photo of Mr Von Luck in his later years..


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    Mr. Von Luck is the man on the left.
     
  5. Skipper

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    Thanks for your input Suzie, I see this was during a visit to the D-Day beaches, (Could this have been 1984 by any chance? )
     
  6. sunny971

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    Good guess but actually it was in 1989.. The gentleman in the middle is John Howard - Major in the British 6th Airborne division, commander of D company. The man on the right is the historian and author Stephen E Ambrose. Both Von Luck and John Howard's divisions fought each other in the Orne river area shortly after D-Day.
     
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    Gosh, I should have recognized both these gentlemen. Major Howard came to Pegasus for many years . Thanks for refreshing my mind. I attended the 40th Anniversary ceremeonies in 1984, hence my question. I didn't go in 1989.
     
  8. harolds

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    After he got some public exposure from Ambrose and developed a friendship with Howard, he parlayed that into a "historical figure" career. He may have overplayed his role during GOODWOOD, but, if he did, he did it well. He became a regular lecturer at Sandhurst during the Cold War era, dealing with how an inferior force can stop a major offensive by a superior one. It was Ambrose who encouraged him to write his book.

    While I am cautiously skeptical about his activities re. Cagny, I know of no other person who had as much combat command experience in so many different campaigns (Poland, France, USSR x2, Africa, Normandy/NW Europe).
     
  9. Duns Scotus

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    Hello Harolds!-this is your old Scottish buddy here formerly known as ''Toomtabard''.
    The thing that I always remember about Von Luck in his book ''Panzer Leader'' was his suprising admission that in one of the Soviet POW camps he was in they were allowed to have a jazz band.
    I always associated Soviet POW cams with hard labour and survival -not jazz bands
    BY the way Harolds I 've just recently discovered that a Scottish member of the Scottish international soccer team who played England in 1872 subsequently emigrated to Wyoming where he became a member of the Wyoming state legislature in the 1880's.
    Cheers Harolds!.
     

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