Kąty Wrocławskie (German: Kanth) is a town in Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Kąty Wrocławskie. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.
The town lies approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The river Bystrzyca, a tributary of the Oder, flows through the town on the eastern side.
In 2006, the town had a population of 5,418.
Kąty Wrocławskie in Worldwar
Kanth was the town where Benjamin Rubin's terrorist cell brought their stolen explosive-metal bomb in 1966, hoping to bring about the destruction of what remained of the Greater German Reich after the Race-German War of 1965. The terrorists garrisoned there simply because it was the closest town they could find, after their truck broke down on the way to Dresden. Mordechai Anielewicz, a Jewish veteran of three wars, tried to talk sense into Rubin, as did Gorppet, an intelligence male of the Race. Rubin, determined to commit suicide in a blaze of glory like the defenders of Masada, ignored their pleas for reason. He activated the detonator, only to find that the weapon, imperfectly maintained for over 20 years, was a dud. Rubin surrendered to the Race, and the Kanth standoff ended anticlimactically.
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