The Prussian General Karl Litzmann won an important battle here against the Russian army and earned the nickname "the lion of Brzeziny".
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The town was renamed Löwenstadt to honour Karl Litzmann and a small ghetto was established in 1940 for local Jews who were all murdered later.
Karl Marx | Karl Pilkington | Karl Lagerfeld | Karl G. Heider | Karl Rove | Karl Pearson | Karl May | Karl Liebknecht | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Karl Dönitz | Karl Jenkins | Karl Stefanovic | Karl Bodmer | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | Karl Malone | Karl Wolf | Karl Valentin | Karl Popper | Karl Malden | Karl Kesel | Karl Barth | Karl Richard Lepsius | Karl Philipp von Wrede | Karl Kautsky | Karl Johans gate | Karl-Heinz Kämmerling | Karl | Karl Weierstrass | Karl Story | Karl Scheel |