Bloody Sunday was a sequence of violent events that took place in Bydgoszcz, a Polish city with a sizable German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland.
An ethnic German identifying a Pole as an alleged participant in anti-German violence in Bydgoszcz during "Bloody Sunday". Poles denounced in this way were usually shot on the spot.
Wehrmacht soldiers and journalists with German victims of Bloody Sunday. The photo was used by the Nazi press and bears the editor's cropping marks, showing the portion of the image that was intended to be used for publication.
Corpses of ethnic Germans at Bydgoszcz
Wochenspruch der NSDAP on 6 September 1942 quotes Dietrich Eckart on the event: "If the light clashes with darkness there is no making of agreements, there is only a fight of life and death until the one or the other part is destroyed."
Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland, straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more than 470,000 inhabitants, Bydgoszcz is the eighth-largest city in Poland. It is the seat of Bydgoszcz County and the co-capital, with Toruń, of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Image: Kamienica przy placu Wolności 1 2023
Image: Bydgoszcz Stary Rynek Poludniowy fragment 2023
Image: Poczta Główna w Bydgoszczy
Image: Katedra w Bydgoszczy 2023
