Alfons Flisykowski
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Alfons Flisykowski (22 September 1902, Goreczyno, Kartuzy County - 5 October 1939, Gdansk-Zaspa) was a Polish worker of The Polish Post-Office in Free City of Gdansk (German:Danzig) in years 1923-1939 and a second commander (after Konrad Guderski) of the defence of the Post Office from the invading Nazi-Germany forces when World War II started on 1 September 1939.
He was captured by the Germans on 2 September and handed over to Gestapo. He was denied a status of a combatant and was later illegally put to a trial, together with other 37 post-office workers, qualified as a bandit subject to German law, sentenced to death and killed in Gdansk-Zaspa on 5 October 1939.
The 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 Gdansk Post Office (Kolo Rodzin Bylych Pracownikow Poczty Gdanskiej) with a goal to repeal the illegal verdict qualifying the postmen as bandits. With the help of Dieter Schenk, former worker of Interpol and the author a book on the subject, the case was put into a verification trial.
As a result of these actions the Land Court in Lübeck make a decision on 30 December 1996, that the previous verdict of 1939 sentencing Flisykowski to death was illegal.
Further reading
- Dieter Schenk, Die Post von Danzig. Geschichte eines deutschen Justizmords [Post-Office of Gdansk. History of a German Justice Murder], 1995