Balin, Łódź Voivodeship
Balin [ˈbalin] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poddębice, within Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) west of Poddębice and 48 km (30 mi) west of the regional capital Łódź.
History
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.
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). 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.
References
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Województwo sieradzkie i województwo łęczyckie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1998. p. 3.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 94.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 332. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
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