Rogalin is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Horodło __NOTOC__ Gmina Horodło is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. Its seat is the village of Horodło, which lies approximately north-east of Hrubieszów ...

, within

Hrubieszów County __NOTOC__ Hrubieszów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local governme ...

, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.

History

During the German-Soviet

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 ...

, on 24 September 1939, Soviet troops committed a massacre of 28 Polish soldiers including three officers. Afterwards, the village was handed over by the Soviets to

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

in accordance with the

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact and the Nazi–Soviet Pact, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Ge ...

, and was occupied by Germany until 1944.

References

Villages in Hrubieszów County Sites of Soviet World War II crimes in Poland Sites of World War II massacres of Poles World War II prisoner of war massacres by the Soviet Union {{Hrubieszów-geo-stub