Witnica [vitˈnit͡sa] (German: Vietz in Ostbrandenburg)[citation needed] is a town in western Poland, situated in the Lubusz Voivodeship, with 6,747 inhabitants (2019).
[3] In the final stages of World War II, half of the population fled before the Red Army captured the town in February 1945.
[3] After Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II the area became again part of Poland.
New Polish citizens, mostly themselves expellées from former eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union, came to the town.
[2] A Polish military museum (Muzeum Chwały Oręża Polskiego) is located in Witnica.