Forest of Szpęgawsk

The Forest of Szpęgawsk (Polish: Las Szpęgawski) is situated west of the village of Szpęgawsk in the administrative district of Gmina Starogard Gdański, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

Around 5000-7000^{[citation needed]} civilians were killed here between September 1939 and January 1940 during the German occupation of Poland, mostly by local Germans, members of the Selbstschutz, as part of the wider Intelligenzaktion Pommern. Most of the victims were Polish inhabitants of Pomerania, including many Catholic priests, teachers, lawyers, doctors, local officials and business people. Some psychiatric hospital patients, Pomeranian Jews and even anti-Nazi Germans were also killed. Among the victims were 1680^{[citation needed]} psychiatric hospital patients from the nearby towns of Kucborowo (Konradstein) and Świecie.

39 mass graves have been found.^[1]

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See also[]

• Mass murders in Piaśnica
• Action T4
• Piaśnica Wielka
• List of Polish Martyrdom sites
• Anti-Polonism

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