During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the German police carried out a massacre of 41 Poles in the village as part of the "Intelligenzaktion". Among the victims were teachers, school principals, priests, policemen, local officials including mayor of the nearby town of Chodzież, merchants, craftsmen, farmers and former insurgents of the Greater Poland uprising from various nearby towns and villages. In November 1940, several Polish families were expelled from Morzewo to the General Government, and some were deported to forced labour to Germany, while their farms were handed over to German colonists in accordance to the "Lebensraum" policy.