Alfons Flisykowski

Male, Deceased Person

1902 – 1939

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Who was Alfons Flisykowski?

Alfons Flisykowski was a Polish worker of the Polish Post Office in the Free City of Danzig in the years 1923-1939 and a second commander of the defence of the Post Office from the invading Nazi German forces when World War II started on September 1, 1939.

Flisykowski was captured by the Germans on 2 September 1939 and handed over to the Gestapo. Denied the legitimate status of POW, he was put on trial, together with the other 37 captured post-office workers. Designated as a "bandit" by a paramilitary court, he was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in Danzig-Saspe on October 5, 1939.

Flisykowski's grave was discovered in 1991. In the same year the families of the killed postmen founded an association called Circle of the Families of the Former Workers of Gdańsk Post Office with a goal to repeal the verdict qualifying the postmen as bandits. With the help of Dieter Schenk, a former worker of Interpol and the author of a book on the subject, the case was put into a verification trial.

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Born
Sep 22, 1902
Died
1939

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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