Skępe [ˈskɛmpɛ] is a town in Lipno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland,[1] with 7790 inhabitants (2012).

[3] Skępe was reintegrated with Poland in 1918, when the country regained independence after World War I.

[3] The Soviets looted the monastery and tortured the local Polish parish priest Albin Żmijewski.

During the Intelligenzaktion in 1939, many inhabitants were murdered in large massacres carried out by the Germans in the Barbarka forest and in nearby Karnkowo.

[7] The occupiers also carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.