Szubin

Szubin is a metropolis in Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, positioned southwest of Bydgoszcz. As of 12 December 2004, it had a populace of 9354. The first document of a settlement next to the castle of the Paluk family became cited in 1365. It have become a town in 1434. In 1773 it was integrated into Prussia in the course of the second one of the Partitions of Poland. Local human beings took part in the various insurrections which unsuccessfully attempted to regain freedom within the 19th century. After World War I, the metropolis have become a part of the Second Polish Republic.

In September 1939, it became quickly occupied by German troops and became integrated into the Nazi Reich as a part of the Warthegau. The boys' college inside the metropolis changed into surrounded by using barbed twine fences and further concrete huts were brought, in order that it is able to come to be a prisoner of battle camp for captured officers, French, Polish and Soviet as Oflag XXI-B. In 1943, the camp changed into modified to a camp for U.S. Army officials as Oflag 64. The town reverted to Poland after being liberated by means of Soviet troops on 21 January 1945.