Śladów is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Brochów __NOTOC__ Gmina Brochów is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sochaczew County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Brochów, Masovian Voivodeship, Brochów, which lies approximately north of Sochaczew ...

, within

Sochaczew County __NOTOC__ Sochaczew County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1 ...

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

, in east-central Poland.

History

In September 1939, during the

German invasion of Poland The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Second Polish Republic, Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak R ...

, which started

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the village was a site of massacre of 300 people, including about a 150 Polish prisoners of war, by the German troops (the Śladów massacre) (another source gives the number of 252 PoWs).

References

Populated places on the Vistula Villages in Sochaczew County Sites of Nazi war crimes during the Invasion of Poland Sites of World War II massacres of Poles {{Sochaczew-geo-stub

History

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