In the interwar period, it was administratively located in the Łódź Voivodeship of Poland.

[3] During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, mostly owners of shops, workshops and better houses, which were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.

[4] The local Jewish population, which numbered around 1,400 at the start of the war, was confined to a ghetto and subject to forced labor.

In 1942, five were hung publicly and in April, 1,800 Jews, including several hundred forcibly resettled from Łęczyca, were confined in a church for ten days without any essentials, including food until a bribe was paid.

The German administrator of Poddębice (probably Franz Heinrich Bock) kept a secret diary published after the war.