Garnizon wojska polskiego w Grudziądzu 1920–1939. Stan badań i postulaty badawcze

• Authors: Rezmer Waldemar

Title variants

DE

Die Garnison des Polnischen Heeres in Graudenz 1920–1939. Forschungsstand und weitere Forderungen

EN

Garrison of the Polish Army in Grudziądz in 1920–1939. The state of research and research postulates

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the interwar period Grudziądz belonged to the largest military centres in Poland due to urban advantages of the city, not directly affected by the WW1, and the numerous and modernized military infrastructure which allowed for accommodation of around 10 thousand soldiers in relatively good conditions and enabled their elementary and specialized training. The infrastructure was built before the WW1, when Grudziądz was a Prussian fortress. Much is already known about the fortress and its role in the lower Vistula defence system. We know much less of its garrison and the changes it underwent, especially from the end of the WW1 until the takeover of the city by the Polish Army on January 23, 1920. After examining these issues we would finally receive an answer to the question of the military chances of the uprising in Pomerania in 1919. The preparations to and execution of the takeover of the part of Pomerania granted to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles (including Grudziądz), conducted by the Polish Army in January and February 1920, are relatively welldescribed in the Polish historiography. However, there are still elements that need investigating, such as participation of the Vistula Flotilla in the operations, protection of the Pomeranian border in the years 1920-1921, or creation of the military administration. The Pomeranian units’ participation in the Polish-Soviet war is also poorly known, as is the course of events in the Grudziądz garrison in the summer of 1920, when the Soviet 4th Army and the 3rd Cavalry Corps entered Pomerania. There is also no monograph of the camp in Grupa, where several hundred soldiers of General Haller’s Blue Army waited in scandalous conditions for sea transport to the West, mainly to the US and Canada, at the turn of 1920 and 1921. About 100 people died there.

• Publisher: Muzeum w Grudziądzu
• Journal: Rocznik Grudziądzki
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 25
• Pages: 105-128

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Rezmer Waldemar

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Instytut Historii i Archiwistyki, Zakład Historii Wojskowej

Identifiers

ISSN

0080-3464