Krzywonoś is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of Gmina Szydłowo, within

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, in east-central

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World War II

Following the

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, in the winter of 1940 on an area of a vast military training range was built by prisoners of the

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nearby. Some fifteen villages around Krzywonoś were completely dismantled to make room for it.Witold Kaczynski
Pozycja Mława. Zarys historyczny.
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, and for testing anti-tank weapons and artillery. The Polish settlements destroyed to make room for the new range included Nosarzewo, Dębsk, Nieradowo, Marianowo, Pawłowo, Kluszewo, Garlino, Zalesie, Żarnow, Zawady, Wiksin, Rąbierz, Kołakow, Budy, and Niemyje. Some were never rebuilt. Similar Nazi German military ranges in

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included the ''

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'' located in Pustków and the ''SS-Truppenübungsplatz Westpreußen'' located in

Dziemiany Dziemiany is a village in Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Dziemiany. It lies approximately south-west of Kościerzyna and south-west of the regio ...

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{{Gmina Szydłowo, Masovian Voivodeship Villages in Mława County

World War II

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