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History of Pomerania between 1933 and 1945 covers the period of one decade of the long history of Pomerania, lasting from the Adolf Hitler's rise to power until the end of World War II in Europe. In 1933, the German Province of Pomerania like all of Germany came under control of the Nazi regime .
During World War II, it became a battlefield and was occupied by the Red Army in early 1945. Shortly thereafter, by the terms of the Potsdam Agreement, the Grenzmark, which was part of Polish Pomerania and Greater Poland before the Partitions of Poland, became again part of Poland and the remaining German population was expelled.
History of Pomerania (1945–present) covers the history of Pomerania during World War II aftermath, the Communist and since 1989 Democratic era. After the post-war border changes, the German population that had not yet fled was expelled.
The Pomeranian Griffin secret military organization (Polish: Tajna Organizacja Wojskowa Gryf Pomorski) was a Polish anti-Nazi resistance group active in Pomerania and East Prussia during World War II. A major Polish resistance organization in the Pomerania region, at its height in 1943 it might have had as many as 20,000 members, although only ...
On 4 March 1945 Kolberg, a large Baltic seaport in the Province of Pomerania, was designated a stronghold as Festung Kolberg. It was one of the key German positions in the Pomeranian Wall, a vital link between Pomerania and Prussia. The German High Command planned to use the seaport to supply nearby German forces, and hoped that the stronghold ...
1410: Gdańsk (Danzig) sides with Poland during the Polish war against the Teutonic Order. [134] 1425: Pomerania-Wolgast again partitioned into P.-Wolgast and P.-Barth. [135] 1448: First Peace of Prenzlau ends a war between Pomerania-Stettin and Brandenburg. 1455: Lauenburg and Bütow Land granted to the House of Pomerania. [24]
During World War II, the Germans operated over 100 forced labour camps in the city, including multiple Polenlager camps solely for Poles, [18] a Nazi prison with forced labour subcamps in the region, [19] and a Dulag transit camp for prisoners of war. [20] The city was a major centre of weapons industry (including the car production Stoewer).
Pomeranian and Silesian offensives. The 2nd Belorussian Front—under Konstantin Rokossovsky—had initially been tasked with advancing westward north of the Vistula River toward Pomerania and the major port city of Danzig, with the primary aim of protecting the right flank of Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front, which was pushing towards Berlin.