After The War
After several years' internment at a Gulag in Georgia, Luck was repatriated. He became heavily involved in veterans' associations, and also lecturing military students. He also became good friends with several of his former opponents, most notably British Airborne Major John Howard. He also formed a friendship with popular U.S. historian Stephen Ambrose, at whose instigation he wrote his memoirs, titled Panzer Commander.
After the war, Luck and Howard would have coffee together in Bénouville at probably the first building in France to be liberated from German occupation, café Gondrée. Because the owners were severely anti-German, Howard convinced them that Luck was a Swede.
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