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Stalag XX-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in Toruń in German-occupied Poland. It was not a single camp and contained as many as 20,000 men at its peak. The main camp was located in seven forts of the 19th-century Toruń Fortress, located in the southern part of the city. [1]
Toruń bridge blown up at the beginning of Second World War. The German army entered the city on 7 September 1939, during the invasion of Poland, which started World War II. Afterwards, the German Einsatzkommando 16 entered the city to commit various crimes against Poles. [30] annexed the city, and administered it as part of Danzig-West Prussia.
Toruń [a] is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland [8] and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. [1] Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1921–1945).
The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945 throughout the territory of the Polish Republic, both in the areas annexed in 1939, and in the General Government formed by Nazi Germany in the central part of the country (see map).
During the German occupation of Poland in time of World War II, Barbarka was the site of German massacres of over 1,100 Poles from Toruń, Chełmża, Skępe and other places in the region, including teachers, school principals, local officials, restaurateurs, shop owners, merchants, farmers, railwaymen, policemen, craftsmen, students, priests, workers, doctors, committed as part of the ...
The Toruń Okrąglak, where people arrested in the early days of the occupation were detained.. Barbarka massacre was a series of mass executions carried out by German occupiers in the autumn of 1939 in the Barbarka forest near Toruń, Poland.
14th Greater Poland Infantry Division (stationed in Poznań) - Gen. Franciszek Wład 15th Greater Poland Infantry Division (stationed in Bydgoszcz ) - Gen. Wacław Przyjałkowski 16th Pomeranian Infantry Division (stationed in Grudziądz ) - Col. Stanisław Świtalski , after September 2, 1939 Col. Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko
Pages in category "Toruń in World War II" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... (Poland) B. Barbarka massacre; S. Stalag XX-A; T. Toruń ...