Łaszew

Łaszew
Łaszew
Village
	Saint John the Baptist church in Łaszew
	Łaszew
	Coordinates: 51°8′40″N 18°39′25″E / 51.14444°N 18.65694°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Łódź
County	Wieluń
Gmina	Wierzchlas
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	EWI

Łaszew [ˈwaʂɛf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wierzchlas, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south of Wierzchlas, 11 km (7 mi) south-east of Wieluń, and 91 km (57 mi) south-west of the regional capital Łódź.

History

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and then young Poles were deported to forced labour in Germany and German-occupied France, and others were deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.^[2] Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[3]

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 253. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
^ Wardzyńska, p. 255

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