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{{Short description|Village in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Babie Doły
| settlement_type = Village
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| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Pomeranian Voivodeship|Pomeranian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Starogard County|Starogard]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Zblewo|Zblewo]]
| coordinates = {{coord|53|58|24|N|18|20|28|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
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| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
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| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
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'''Babie Doły''' {{IPAc-pl|'|b|a|b|j|e|-|'|d|o|ł|y}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Zblewo]], within [[Starogard County]], [[Pomeranian Voivodeship]], in northern Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|5|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north of [[Zblewo]], {{convert|13|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of [[Starogard Gdański]], and {{convert|48|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-west of the regional capital [[Gdańsk]]. It is located in the ethnocultral region of [[Kociewie]] in the historic region of [[Pomerania]].

== Babie Doły bunker people legend ==

In 1951, an [[Associated Press]] report claimed that a [[Wehrmacht|German soldier]] was found alive after being trapped with five comrades following the dynamiting of their underground storehouse in 1945. They are believed to have been looting the storehouse and the retreating soldiers who dynamited the tunnel did not know they were there. The stores contained a large amount of food, drink, candles and other goods so the soldiers were able to survive. Four of the soldiers died (two suicides soon after being trapped, two unknown causes) leaving only two survivors. One of them suffered a heart attack and died upon leaving the tunnel.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19510618&id=Nw0OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Yn0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4640,997118|title=German Soldier Survives Six Years Of Entombment In Nazi Concrete Bunker|newspaper=[[St Petersburg Times]]|date=June 18, 1951|accessdate=May 3, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l5IVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uAsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6253,4601264&hl=en|title=Buried Alive For Six Years|newspaper=[[Eugene Register-Guard]]|date=18 June 1951|accessdate=3 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,806023,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218160039/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,806023,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 18, 2009 |title=In Babie Doly |magazine=Time |date=25 June 1951}}</ref> The final soldier was said to have made a full recovery, but his identity was never revealed.<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-41760577.html|title=Die Legende von Babie Doly (in German)|magazine=[[Der Spiegel]] |date= May 1958|accessdate=May 3, 2012}}</ref>

However, a 1958 ''[[De Spiegeleer|Die Spiegel]]'' investigation strongly suggests that the "bunker people of [[Gdynia]]" (or the Babie Doły legend) was likely a fabrication rather than a real event. The Polish [[Ministry of the Interior and Administration|Interior Ministry]] has stated that they are not aware of any such incident.<ref name=":0" />

The legend gained traction in both East and West Germany primarily through sensationalized tabloids, ballads, novellas and stage dramas.<ref name=":0" /> A rhymed version of the tale was a popular radio play of the [[Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk]] radio.<ref name=":0" />

In the 1958, the movie ''[[Nasser Asphalt]]'' (Wet Asphalt), written by former police reporter [[Will Tremper]], presents the bunker story as a fabrication by a journalist seeking sensational news in the tense post-war period.<ref name=":0" />

The story inspired a novel called ''Le Blockhouse'' by French author [[Jean-Paul Clébert]] which was made into [[The Blockhouse|a film of the same name]] in 1973.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

==References==
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{{Gmina Zblewo}}

[[Category:Villages in Starogard County]]
[[Category:Villages in Kociewie]]

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Babie Doły, Pomeranian Voivodeship - Revision history

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