Editing Świdnica (section)

===World War II and recent history===
A Nazi prison was located in the city under [[Nazi Germany]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten/index.php?action=2.2&tab=7&id=100001070|title=Gefängnis Schweidnitz|website=Bundesarchiv.de|access-date=1 November 2020|language=de}}</ref> and during World War II, the Germans also established a [[List of subcamps of Gross-Rosen|subcamp]] of the [[Gross-Rosen concentration camp]], three [[prisoner of war]] labor divisions of the [[Stalag VIII-A]] camp and a [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]] camp.<ref name=PWN/> Among the prisoners was [[Lesław Bartelski]], Polish writer and [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|resistance member]], who fought in the [[Warsaw Uprising]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Sierotwiński|first=Stanisław|year=1966|title=Kronika życia literackiego w Polsce pod okupacją hitlerowską: próba przeglądu zdarzeń w układzie chronologicznym|journal=Rocznik Naukowo-Dydaktyczny|language=pl|publisher=Wydawnictwo [[Pedagogical University of Cracow|Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej]] w Krakowie|issue=24|page=53}}</ref> In January 1945, a German-perpetrated [[The March (1945)|death march]] of [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] POWs from the [[Stalag Luft 7]] passed through the city.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Stanek|first=Piotr|year=2015|title=Stalag Luft 7 Bankau i jego ewakuacja na Zachód w styczniu 1945 r.|journal=Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny|location=Opole|language=pl|volume=38|page=66|issn=0137-5199}}</ref>

After the defeat of [[Germany]] in 1945, the town, like most of [[Silesia]], became again part of Poland under border changes agreed at the [[Potsdam Conference]]. Those members of the German population who had not already fled or had been killed during the war were subsequently [[Expulsion of Germans after World War II|expelled]] to the remainder of [[Allied-occupied Germany|Germany]] in accordance with the [[Potsdam Agreement]] and the city was repopulated with [[Polish people|Poles]], many of whom had themselves been expelled from [[Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union]]. Also [[Greeks in Poland|Greeks]], refugees of the [[Greek Civil War]], settled in Świdnica in the 1950s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kubasiewicz|first=Izabela|editor-last1=Dworaczek|editor-first1=Kamil|editor-last2=Kamiński|editor-first2=Łukasz|year=2013|title=Letnia Szkoła Historii Najnowszej 2012. Referaty|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|page=117|chapter=Emigranci z Grecji w Polsce Ludowej. Wybrane aspekty z życia mniejszości}}</ref> From 1975 to 1998 it was administratively located in the former [[Wałbrzych Voivodeship]].

In 2004, Świdnica became the seat of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Świdnica]].