Editing Chojnice (section)

===Poland (1920–1939)===

[[File:Henryk Poddębski - Chojnice (131-16504).jpg|thumb|Chojnice in 1938]]
After the regulations of the [[Treaty of Versailles]] had become effective in 1920, Chojnice together with 62% of the former province of [[West Prussia]] was re-integrated into the [[Second Polish Republic]], which regained independence in 1918, and Polish troops entered the town. A local citizen, Barbara Stammowa, symbolically broke shackles on the balcony of the town hall - in revenge Nazis murdered her in 1939 when the town was [[German invasion of Poland|re-occupied by Germany]].<ref name=mh>{{cite magazine|last=Hamerska|first=Małgorzata|year=2012|title=Miejsca pamięci narodowej w powiecie chojnickim|magazine=Zeszyty Chojnickie|language=pl|location=Chojnice|publisher=Chojnickie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk|issue=27|page=59}}</ref> In the [[interwar period]] two official visits of Presidents of Poland to Chojnice took place, as [[Stanisław Wojciechowski]] visited the town in 1924 and [[Ignacy Mościcki]] in 1927.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historiachojnic.pl/artykuly/materialy/Lata-miedzywojenne/101/panie-i-panowie---prezydent-rp|title=Panie i Panowie - Prezydent RP|website=Historia Chojnic|access-date=28 June 2020|language=pl}}</ref> In 1932 a regional museum was opened in Chojnice.