| Franz Rederich |
| 04/07/2010 Hi Jim,
I am sending information about a German prisoner from my city :
Camp Atterbury Prisoner of War Compound
As recorded in your German POW Roster, Rederich Franz, 5 WG 6845, 4, Misc Units, 10/24/1914, Obergefreiter Flak Rgt 365,3.Battr., Captured 5/9/1943, 123, German
He was a soldier in Africa and has come about Crete and the UK
to the USA.
So small is the world, I find a prisoner of war from my city on
your own website !!!!!!
I hope these photos and documents you can use for your website.
Many greetings from Germany,
Willi
www.archiv-oberaussem.com
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 Franz Rederich, 1st on left. |
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 Discharged 07/06/1946 |
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Obergefreiter Franz Rederich died in 2004. He was a Corporal ( Obergefreiter ) in the German Luftwaffe during the fighting in Africa. He was captured on Crete and sent to Britain and then to America. There he came first to the prison camp "Camp Campbell" in Kentucky. Later he worked on some large farms in Kentucky, in agriculture. He was then sent to Camp Atterbury in Indiana. On 9 July 1946 he was discharged from the German Luftwaffe by the U. S. Army. He received severance pay of RM 40 and returned on 07/12/1946 back in his home town of "Markt Ergoldsbach " in Lower Bavaria. Only 1946 of the Lower Bavarian-born came to Oberaußem. Here he and Nelly Mueck, the daughter of farmer Johann Mueck, which he had met during the war in Cologne, married and has lived thereafter until his death in 2004, His family still lives here. About his time in America and the Farmer, where he was also working, he has always spoken well. He had been lucky. That is all that he told me. It's a shame that he no longer lived there - He would have liked his photos on the website !!! |
| Source: email Willie 04/07/2010 |
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