Timeline of Wrocław


The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Wrocław, Poland.

Prior to 16th century

16th–18th centuries

19th century

20th century

1900–1939

World War II (1939–1945)

  • 1939
  • * September: City made the headquarters of the southern district of the Selbstschutz, led by SS-Oberführer Fritz Katzmann, which task was to commit atrocities against Poles during the German invasion of Poland.
  • * September: Mass arrests of Polish activists, Polish organizations banned.
  • 1940
  • * Ausländer-Auffanglager forced labour camp established by the Germans; its prisoners were mostly Poles, but also Frenchmen, Czechs, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, etc.
  • * Rheinmettal–Borsig forced labour camp established by the Germans; its prisoners were mostly Poles, but also Czechs, French POWs, Soviet POWs and Jews.
  • * Forced labour camp in Sołtysowice established by the Germans; it housed between 4,000 and 10,000 prisoners, mostly Poles, but also Czechs, Ukrainians, Yugoslavs, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Dutchmen and Russians.
  • * 20 April: Forced labour camp for Jewish men established by the Germans in the present-day district of Jerzmanowo.
  • * September: Forced labour camp for Jews established by the Germans in Żerniki.
  • 1941 - Olimp underground Polish resistance organization formed.
  • 1942
  • * 15 February: Forced labour camp for Jewish men in Jerzmanowo dissolved.
  • * 15 July: Execution of, commander of the Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich Polish resistance organization by the Germans.
  • * August: AL Breslau-Lissa subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp established by the Germans, its prisoners were mostly Poles, but also Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, Frenchmen, Czechs, Yugoslavs.
  • 1943
  • * April 23: Polish Zagra-Lin attacks Nazi German troop transport.
  • * Dulag 410 transit camp for Allied prisoners of war established by the Germans.
  • 1944
  • * March: Forced labour camp for Jews in Żerniki dissolved.
  • * August: City declared a Nazi fortress.
  • * Three more subcamps of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp established, for prisoners of various nationalities, including one subcamp for women.
  • * Deportations of Poles from Warsaw to the forced labour camp in Sołtysowice following the Warsaw Uprising.
  • * Prisoners of the Rheinmettal–Borsig forced labour camp evacuated to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in a death march.
  • 1945
  • * January: evacuation of the prisoners of the Gross-Rosen subcamps to the main camp in death marches.
  • * 20 January: Rheinmettal–Borsig forced labour camp dissolved.
  • * January–April: Construction of a temporary airport, during which thousands of forced labourers were killed.
  • * An AGSSt assembly center for Allied POWs established by the Germans.
  • * February 13-May 6: Siege of Breslau.
  • * April: Bombing of the Ausländer-Auffanglager forced labour camp; death of many prisoners.
  • * May 7: Forced labour camp in Sołtysowice dissolved.
  • * Polish Boleslaw Drobner becomes mayor.
  • * Expulsion of Germans in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement begins.
  • * June: Deportation of captured German POWs to the Soviet Union by the Russians.
  • * 8 June: Nasz Wrocław, first post-war Polish newspaper of Wrocław begins publishing.

1946–1990s

21st century

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