Koźle [ˈkɔʑlɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szamotuły, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of Szamotuły and 41 km (25 mi) north-west of the regional capital Poznań.

Koźle
Village
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Coordinates: 52°35′N 16°24′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Szamotuły
Gmina	Szamotuły
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	PSZ

History

Koźle was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), inhabitants of Koźle were among Poles massacred by the Germans on November 9, 1939 in Mędzisko [pl] and on December 8, 1939 in Bukowiec, as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] In 1939 and 1942, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to ethnic Germans as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4] Poles expelled in 1939 were briefly held in a transit camp in Wronki, where they were stripped of any valuables, and then deported to the Radom District of the General Government (German-occupied central Poland), while those expelled in 1942 were enslaved as forced labour and sent either to Germany or to new German colonists in the county.[4]

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