Karzec

Following World War I, Poland regained independence and control of the village.

[3] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945 and local Poles were subjected to various crimes.

One local farmer was among Poles murdered in a public execution perpetrated by the German Einsatzgruppe VI in the nearby town of Krobia on October 21, 1939, as part of the Intelligenzaktion.

[4] In 1944, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were afterwards enslaved as forced labour of new German colonists in other villages in the county.

[5] Houses and farms of expelled Poles were handed over to new German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.