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Old 9th May 2006, 11:17
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Re: Help with identifying German pilot taken prisoner on July 13, 1943

kalender1972, thanks for the link. Sadly, reading russian is difficult for me but I will work myself through! Seems there might be some more interesting stuff in this article

Concerning Lüty:

He was captured by the RKKA and interogated. AFAIK, he stated some details about high losses of his unit etc.

Additionally, in Günther Ralls memoirs the loss of Lüty is also mentioned roughly as follows:

"
O'lt. Lüty gave alway all his belongings on the day before he was lost and said "tomorrow will be my last day".
"

I see two explanations for this:
1) he was really on the edge of his nerves, which is understandable after 1week of extreme heavy aerial battles never seen before in the East of
2) he wanted to changes sides to the Soviets for what reason ever.
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