Potulice (german: Potulitz) (previously also ''Kantów'') is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Nakło nad Notecią
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Gmina Nakło nad Notecią is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Nakło nad Notecią, which lies approximately west of Bydgos ...
, within
Nakło County
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Nakło County ( pl, powiat nakielski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local g ...
,
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, also known as Cuiavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship or simply Kujawsko-Pomorskie, or Kujawy-Pomerania Province ( pl, województwo kujawsko-pomorskie ) is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divide ...
, in north-central Poland.
It lies approximately south-east of
Nakło nad Notecią
Nakło nad Notecią (Polish pronunciation: ; german: Nakel an der Netze) is a town in northern Poland on the river Noteć with 23,687 inhabitants (2007). It is the seat of Nakło County, and also of Gmina Nakło nad Notecią, situated in the Kuya ...
and west of
Bydgoszcz. It is best known as the site of the
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
Nazi German
Potulice concentration camp, also known as ''Lebrechtsdorf''.
The village has a population of 2,100.
History
![Potulice - cmentarz Ofiar obozu hitlerowskiego](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Potulice_-_cmentarz_Ofiar_obozu_hitlerowskiego.jpg)
It was part of the
Kingdom of Poland
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Historical political entities
* Kingdom of Poland, a kingdom existing from 1025 to 1031
* Kingdom of Poland, a kingdom exi ...
until it was annexed by
Prussia
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in the
Second Partition of Poland
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in 1793. In 1807 it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Polish
Duchy of Warsaw
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, and after its dissolution in 1815, it was reannexed by Prussia. From 1871 it also formed part of Germany, until it was reintegrated with
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
, after it regained independence following
World War I
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in 1918.
Following the joint German-Soviet
invasion of Poland
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, which started
World War II
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in September 1939, the village was invaded and then
occupied by Germany. Germany established and operated a transit camp for Poles
expelled from the region, which was soon converted into the
Potulice concentration camp. In 1945, the village was liberated and restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which then stayed in power until the
Fall of Communism
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in the 1980s. The communists operated the
Central Labour Camp Potulice
After the end of World War II, the Central Labour Camp in Potulice ( pl, Centralny Obóz Pracy w Potulicach) became a detention centre for Germans and anti-communist Poles. It was set up by the Soviet and Polish Communist authorities in Potulice ...
.
See also
*
Potulice concentration camp
*
Central Labour Camp Potulice
After the end of World War II, the Central Labour Camp in Potulice ( pl, Centralny Obóz Pracy w Potulicach) became a detention centre for Germans and anti-communist Poles. It was set up by the Soviet and Polish Communist authorities in Potulice ...
References
Potulice
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