Koźle, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Koźle is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szamotuły, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 13 km west of Szamotuły and 41 km north-west of the regional capital Poznań.

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.

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 and on December 8, 1939, in Bukowiec, as part of the Intelligenzaktion. 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. 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.