page_title: Rudzki Most
section_title: German occupation
hierarchical_section_title: Rudzki Most / German occupation
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Masowa egzekucja w Rudzkim Moście nieopodal Tucholi. Między 24 października a 10 listopada 1939 Niemcy rozstrzelali w Rudzkim Moście łącznie 335 Polaków. Zbrodni dokonali miejscowi volksdeutsche z paramilitarnego Selbstschutzu, nadzorowani przez funkcjonariuszy SS. English: Mass execution of Poles in Rudzki Most forest near Tuchola, conducted by SS members and ethnic Germans – members of so-called "Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz". Between 24 October and 10 November 1939 exactly 335 Poles were executed in Rudzki Most.
context_page_description: Rudzki Most is a town in Poland south-east of Tuchola along the west bank of the Brda River. It is on the edge of the Tuchola Landscape Park, and was incorporated into the jurisdiction of Tuchola in 1955. The town takes its name from wooden bridge over the Brda, which was most recently replaced in 1958 by the current road bridge, part of route 240, and from the Ruda River, which flows through the nearby town of Rudzki Młyn.
  There is a launching point for canoeing on the Brda River, and in the river near the bridge is a notable large boulder called King Jagiełło's Stone, with a circumference about 7 metres. The Roman Catholic Parish of Divine Providence is located in the town as well.
context_section_description: On October 24, 27 and 30, and on November 2, 6 and 10, 1939, at the beginning of the German occupation of Poland, Germans carried out mass shootings of local Poles, mainly of the intelligentsia as part of the larger Intelligenzaktion Pommern, in the surrounding forests. The priest Franciszek Nogalski attempted to negotiate the release of many those to be executed, but was ultimately killed himself.  In 1943 the German occupiers renamed the village Raudenbrück.
  After the war, in November 1946, the bones of 227 victims  were exhumed, 34 of which were unidentified, and reburied in Tuchola, where a mausoleum was later built. There is now a monument at the site of the mass graves of the murdered.
caption: German Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz members conducted mass executions between October and November 1939 near Rudzki Most.
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