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31 January: A Polish insurgent unit entered the city without a fight in the first days of the January Uprising, and seized weapons and 18,000 rubles for the uprising.
18 June: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops.
29 September: Clash between Polish insurgents and Russian troops.
2 September: Germany carried out first air raids, bombing the airport and the Łódź Kaliska train station.
3 September: Further air raids carried out by Germany. The Germans bombed a railway station in the Widzew district, a power plant, a gas plant, a thread factory and many houses.
5 September: The Germans air raided the airport again.
6 September: The Germans air raided a historic palace which housed the command of the Polish Łódź Army.
6 September: the Citizens' Committee of the City of Łódź established.
9 November: City annexed directly into Nazi Germany; the Germans destroyed the monument of Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko.
9 November: First prisoners detained in the Radogoszcz concentration camp.
November: Hundreds of Poles from Łódź and the region massacred by the Germans in the forest in the present-day district of Łagiewniki as part of the Intelligenzaktion.
City renamed "Litzmannstadt" to erase traces of Polish origin.
11 December: The Germans massacred 70 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki.
13 December: The Germans massacred 40 Polish prisoners of the Radogoszcz camp in Łagiewniki.
December: 65 prisoners from the transit camp in Pabianice deported to the Radogoszcz concentration camp and then massacred in Łagiewniki.
31 December: First expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego carried out.
Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las.
1940
14–15 January: German police and Selbstschutz carried out mass expulsions of Poles from Osiedle Montwiłła-Mireckiego.
February: More prisoners from the liquidated transit camp in Pabianice imprisoned in the Radogoszcz camp; Radogoszcz camp converted into the Radogoszcz prison.
Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las.
March: 11 Polish boy scouts from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the Okręglik forest near Zgierz.
April–May: The Russians committed the large Katyn massacre, among the victims of which were over 1,200 Poles, who either were born or lived in Łódź or the region before the war.
1941
March: German transit prisoner-of-war camp Dulag 240 established.
9 October: Two prisoners of war escaped from the Stalag Luft II in the only known case of a successful escape from the camp.
German concentration camp for kidnapped Polish children of 2 to 16 years of age established in the city. It was nicknamed "little Auschwitz" due to its conditions.
1943
April: Subcamp of the Stalag XXI-D POW camp established.
The Germans established a forced labour camp for around 800 English prisoners of war in the Olechów neighbourhood.
1944
August: Łódź Ghetto liquidated.
September: Most POWs transported from Stalag Luft II to the Stalag Luft III camp in Żagań.
21 November: Stalag Luft II POW camp liquidated.
1945
German concentration camp for kidnapped Polish children disestablished.
17 January: City taken by the Soviet Army and afterwards restored to Poland.
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