During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of 20 Poles from Lipusz, including railwaymen, farmers, millers, a secretary of the local forestry, a teacher and a postman, in the nearby forest (see "Intelligenzaktion"). Families of the victims were expelled. Some Poles from Lipusz were also murdered in the forest near Skarszewy, and further expulsions of Poles were carried out in 1943 and 1944. The expellees were either deported to forced labour or to the General Government.