Dopiewiec was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

[2] During the German occupation of Poland, the local forest was the site of large massacres of Poles from the region committed by the occupiers in 1939–1940 (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).

[3] In the autumn of 1939, the Germans massacred over 630 Poles brought from the Fort VII concentration camp in Poznań, incl.

[4] In early 1940 further executions took place, in which over 2,000 Poles were brought from Fort VII to the forest and murdered.

In the last months of the war the occupiers burnt the bodies of the victims in an attempt to cover up the crime.