| Balin | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Łódź |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Poddębice |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Poddębice |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Coordinates: | 51.9322°N 18.8122°W |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Population Total: | 110 |
| Registration Plate: | EPD |
| Blank Name Sec2: | National roads |
| Blank1 Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
Balin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poddębice, within Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 12km (07miles) west of Poddębice and 480NaN0 west of the regional capital Łódź.
Balin was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Szadek County in the Sieradz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
During the German invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, on 8 September 1939, German troops carried out a massacre of 21 Polish farmers in Balin (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3] During the subsequent German occupation, in 1942, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were then enslaved as forced labour in the area.[4]