Sergey Fridinsky confirmed that the prosecution brought no charges against the government of the Soviet Union with regards to the Katyn massacre. In 1943 the German government announced that the mass grave of some 4,250 Polish officers had been found in a forest near Katyn and accused the Soviets of having massacred them. Why was which became the primary indigenous opponent to German rule over Poland. Material Relating to the Coverage of the Katyn Forest Massacre and Related Documents. Only one Polish officer survived the systematic execution of tens of thousands of prisoners taken captive by the Red Army. Web. Associated Newspapers, 21 Oct. 2013. Listy kaliskie. This heinous crime is known as the Katy Massacre, after the executions carried out in the forest at Katyn, near Smolensk, however the Polish officers were also executed in prison camps at Kozelsk, Starobyelsk, near Kharkiv in Ukraine and in Belarus. The truth behind the massacre was hidden for more than fifty years, while the USSR upheld the guise that the Germans were responsible for the massacre. Mail Online. Registration for this event has been closed. Listy pockie, ed. The only survivor of the Katyn Massacre in WWII. Katyn ktn , village, W central European Russia, 12 mi (19 km) W of Smolensk. Indian Defence Forum. (9/1789). Not until 1989 were Communist documents released documenting the fact that the Soviet NKVD ( Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del the secret police force that later became the KGB) carried out the Katyn Massacre. THE KATYN MASSACRE AND REACTIONS IN THE FOREIGN in 1943 and the primary reports (paragraph l); the "Katyn Campaign" o f 1971 and upon arguments la rg e ly drawn from Polish sources It analyzes the rhetoric of exemplary articles, forums, and films, the questions they address, and the ideas they advocate. Death in the Forest, The story of Katyn Massacre by J. K. Zawodny (1971, Macmillan and Co Ltd) This book was first published in 1962 in California. "European Court Rules against Russia on 1940 Katyn Massacre." At its height the Home Army fielded around four hundred thousand members, but its strength was widely believed to For 50 years, the Soviet Union blamed the murder of more than 20,000 Polish officers on the Nazis, who uncovered one of the mass graves in the forest of Katyn, near the city of Smolensk, in 1943. radek ( talk ) 22:17, 6 November 2009 (UTC) Chicago citation style Department of State. Posts about Katyn Forest Massacre written by cherienb55. Primary Sources Archive There are currently 9,022 articles published within the Primary Sources Archive. But the various massacres are still often collectively referred to as "the Katyn massacre" - as it states in the sources. Source: Archiwum Ringelbluma, t. 15, Wrzesie 1939. 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