Potulice (Nakło nad Notecią)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Kuyavian Pomeranian | ||
| Powiat : | Nakło nad Notecią | ||
| Gmina : | Nakło nad Notecią | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 8 ' N , 17 ° 41' E | ||
| Residents : | 1634 | ||
| Postal code : | 89-120 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 52 | ||
| License plate : | CNA | ||
Potulice ( German Potulitz ) is a Polish village in the urban and rural municipality Nakło nad Notecią (Eng. Nakel ) in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern central Poland. It is located about eight kilometers from the town of Nakło and twelve kilometers from Bydgoszcz .
history
Until 1939
Potulice belonged to the Potulicki County. Count Casimir Adalbert Potulicki built mid-19th century, and from a hunting lodge for Villa Potulice, which was his residence from it the rule Slesin - Samsieczno led. After the First World War , the community came to the newly established state of Poland . Nakło was on the corridor between Schneidemühl (now Piła ) and Bydgoszcz (formerly Bromberg ).
German occupation in World War II, camp
During the German occupation in World War II from 1939 to 1945, the village and the surrounding area were annexed by the German Reich ( Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia ). During this time there were numerous executions and mass murders in the area.
On February 1, 1941, a camp was set up in Potulice for the Poles expelled by the Germans as part of the “resettlement” ( Lebrechtsdorf – Potulitz camp ). Officially the central office for migrants , the camp was transformed into a kind of concentration camp . For a time it was a satellite camp of the Stutthof concentration camp and since 1942 a forced labor camp (also known as the Lebrechtsdorf SS labor camp). The poor living conditions in the camp were comparable to those of a concentration camp. The camp in Potulitz had been of particular importance since 1943 as a youth custody camp for children from the conquered Soviet areas (also UWZ Lebrechtsdorf camp). In June 1942 the village was renamed Lebrechtsdorf.
In Lebrechtsdorf there was also a security police school , and from autumn 1944 the headquarters of the training battalion of the security police and SD Konitz ("3rd foreign national training battalion Konitz") with three companies in Lebrechtsdorf and Konitz .
post war period
After the end of the war, the Soviet Union used the camp's premises and infrastructure for the Potulice Central Labor Camp for interning both German and Polish prisoners. All smaller camps in the north-eastern voivodeships of Poland were subordinate to him. According to received documents, a total of 4495 people died in the central labor camp Potulice 1945–1949 (some of them from epidemics). Around 35,000 Germans are said to have been interned in the camp from 1945 to 1950.
Today there is a prison of the Polish state, as well as a memorial for both camps.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Collection Alexander Duncker ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 302 kB) in the Central and State Library Berlin, accessed on August 8, 2013.
- ↑ Territorial.de, district of Schlössen , accessed on December 10, 2013
- ↑ Federal Archives, estate Wolfgang Vopersal, N 756
