Ostatnie miesiące pokoju. Sytuacja w Grudziądzu i okolicach w 1939 roku w świetle meldunków komend garnizonów wojskowych

• Authors: Nastrożny Paweł

Title variants

DE

Die letzten Monate des Friedens. Die Lage in Grudziądz (Graudenz) und Umgebung im Jahre 1939 im Lichte von Berichten aus Militärgarni

EN

The last months of peace. The situation in Grudziądz and its surroundings in 1939 in the light of command reports from military garrisons

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

As a result of the decision of the Treaty of Versailles, in the period 1920–1939 Grudziądz was located relatively close to the border with the German Reich, or more specifically with its part – East Prussia. This article presents the situation at the territories of Grudziądz and its surroundings in the last months before the outbreak of the Second World War. In this area, there were Polish garrisons in Grudziądz (one of the two main garrisons in Pomerania), Chełmno, and Świecie. Their headquarters were responsible for the general organization of sevice and military life in a given town and subordinate area. They prepared a number of documents. Among them there were safety reports, which were sent to the Corps District Command no. VIII (Dowództwo Okręgu Korpusu) in Toruń. Only a part of them has been preserved in the archives. Despite the incompletness of the collection, the reports, which are currently kept in the Corps District Command no. VIII, in the Military Historical Office (Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne) – Central Military Archives (Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe) in Warsaw – Rembertów, constitute an interesting picture of the social situation and partly the military one that prevailed in the last months of peace before the outbreak of the Second World War. In this article, the messages from the reports are analyzed and ordered, and their selection is presented in the consecutive four sections. They concern border movements on the German side north of Grudziądz, the activities of German organizations and attitudes of Germans, Polish moods as well as accidents and incidents of different kinds.

• Publisher: Muzeum w Grudziądzu
• Journal: Rocznik Grudziądzki
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 29
• Pages: 99-117

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Nastrożny Paweł

• Uniwersytet Gdański, Muzeum im. ks. dr. W. Łęgi w Grudziądzu