In 1941 A number of Boy Scouts in Bydgoszcz who ranged from twelve to sixteen years of age, who were set up in the marketplace against a wall and shot. No reason was given. A devoted priest who rushed to administer the Last Sacrament was shot too. He received five wounds. A Pole said afterwards that the sight of those children lying dead was the most piteous of all the horrors he saw (from the NYT).
Following World War II, Bydgoszcz was returned to Poland, as a Soviet bloc nation, under the Potsdam Conference border resolutions.
Economy
Major corporations
Zachem SA, Bydgoszcz
Zesp? Elektrociep?owni Bydgoszcz SA, Bydgoszcz
PESA Pojazdy Szynowe (PESA Rail Vehicles)
Sports
Ostromecko Astoria Bydgoszcz – men’s basketball team playing in Era Basket Liga: 8th in 2003/2004 season.
GCB Adriana Gazeta Pomorska Bydgoszcz- women’s volleyball team playing in Polish Seria A Women’s Volleyball League: 5th place in 2003/2004 season.
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Warta (Latin: Varta, German: Warthe) is a river in western-central Poland, a tributary of the Oder river. With a length of approximately 808 kilometers it is the country's third longest river. Warta has a basin area of 54,529. It is connected to the Vistula by the river Note? and the Bydgoszcz Canal (Kana? Bydgoski).
It flows out of Upper Silesia (the Silesian Voivodship) near Zawiercie, flows through Lodz Land, Greater Poland and Lubusz Land where it empties into river Oder near Kostrzyn. It is connected to river Vistula by the Note? river and the Bydgoszcz Canal near Bydgoszcz.
Cities
Zawiercie
Cz?stochowa
Dzia?oszyn
Sieradz
Warta, Town
Dobra
Ko?o
Konin
Pyzdry
?rem
Mosina
Puszczykowo
Lubo?
Pozna?
Oborniki
Obrzycko
Wronki
Sieraków
Mi?dzychód
Skwierzyna
Gorzów Wielkopolski
Kostrzyn
Right tributaries
Widawka
Ner
We?na
Note?
Left
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Major corporations
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Major corporations
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