Dorposz Szlachecki | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Chełmno |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Kijewo Królewskie |
Coordinates: | 53.2908°N 18.4319°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | CCH |
Dorposz Szlachecki (pronounced as /pl/) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kijewo Królewskie, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies 9km (06miles) south of Chełmno, 320NaN0 north-west of Toruń, and 350NaN0 north-east of Bydgoszcz. It is located in the Chełmno Land in the historic region of Pomerania.
During the German occupation (World War II), in 1939, the German Selbstschutz established a jail for Poles from the region in the local pre-war Polish police station.[2] Around 400 Poles were imprisoned and then massacred in nearby Małe Czyste as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] Polish teachers from Dorposz Szlachecki were murdered by the Germans in a massacre of Poles committed in nearby Klamry, also as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[2] In 1941, the occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4]