Potulice concentration camp (German: UWZ Lager Lebrechtsdorf– Potulitz) was a concentration camp established and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II in Potulice near Nakło in the territory of occupied Poland.

It became notable also as a detention centre for kidnapped Polish children that underwent the Nazi experiment in forced Germanisation.

[1] Initially the Potulice camp was one of numerous transit points for Poles expelled by the German authorities from territories of western Poland annexed into the newly created Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.

The facility quickly expanded to include a slave-labor subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp nearby, supplying a free workforce for the Hansen Schneidemühl machine shop set up on the premises.

[4] The camp served as a place for detention of Polish children; of the 1,296 people who died there, 767 victims were minors.

If the tests were positive and it was believed the child had lost emotional contact with their parents, then it could be sent to German families for Germanisation.

Under the supervision of kapo they usually were used to carry building materials or stones, or used to load coal, wood, and potatoes at the railway station.

These infants faced a harsh fate as their exhausted mothers weren't able to feed them and the food rations were always in short supply.

As the war went on, conditions in camp became even more brutal and harsh, and penalties such as standing on broken glass were introduced.

[9] The decision was important for the status of compensation paid by post-war Germany towards victims of German repression in World War II.

Following World War II, the site of the camp was used as a detention centre by Polish Communist authorities,[10] mainly for "ethnic Germans" from the Volksliste (DVL) including settlers and some 180 prisoners-of-war, as well as the anti-communist Poles from the Home Army and the National Armed Forces.

According to records of the MBP Department of Corrections, some 2,915 Germans died there before the end of 1949, mainly as a result of the typhus and dysentery epidemics.