| Babie Doły | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pomeranian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Starogard |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Zblewo |
| Coordinates: | 53.9733°N 18.3411°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Babie Doły is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zblewo, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) north of Zblewo, 130NaN0 west of Starogard Gdański, and 480NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
In 1951 a German soldier was found alive after being trapped with five comrades following the dynamiting of their underground storehouse in 1945. They are believed to have been looting the storehouse and the retreating soldiers who dynamited the tunnel did not know they were there. The stores contained a large amount of food, drink, candles and other goods so the soldiers were able to survive. Four of the soldiers died (two suicides soon after being trapped, two unknown causes) leaving only two survivors. One of them suffered a heart attack and died upon leaving the tunnel.[2] [3] [4] The final soldier was said to have made a full recovery, but his identity was never revealed.[5]
The story inspired a novel called Le Blockhouse by French author Jean-Paul Clébert which was made into a film of the same name in 1973.