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In the spring of 1940, Stalin's NKVD executed 22,000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other places. When Wehrmacht soldiers discovered some of the graves three years later, the Soviets succeeded in convincing US President Roosevelt of the German perpetration.British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had no clear picture of the crime, and therefore made no public comments. Using thousands of recently released US documents, this book refutes the popular thesis that the Western Allies deliberately lied about the Katyn case in order not to endanger the alliance with Stalin.As well as consulting Polish and Russian documentation on this war crime, for the first time, the diaries of the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, who wrote a great deal about Katyn, have been examined.Completely new for research is the role that Hitler's opponents in the Wehrmacht played in solving the crime: at the Nuremberg trial they convinced the US delegation that the executors were not from the SS, but from the NKVD.Nevertheless, it took until 1990 for Kremlin chief Gorbachev to admit Soviet responsibility. Today in Putin's Russia, however, there is a tendency once more to keep quiet about the crime or even to blame the Germans.

Soviet union --- World war, 1939-1945 --- History --- Katyn Massacre, Katyn, Russia, 1940

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Katyn Massacre, Katyn,́ Russia, 1940 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Massacres --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Atrocities --- Atrocités

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Examining the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and other camps in 1940 - one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War - this book sheds new light on what took place and how the memory of the massacres long affected, and continues to affect, Polish-Russian relations.

Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940. --- Massacres --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Atrocities --- History --- Persecution --- Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940 --- Poland --- Soviet Union --- Foreign relations --- Katyn Massacre, Katyn, Russia, 1940.

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Katyn--the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940--has come to be remembered as Stalin's emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name.

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Katyn Massacre, Katyn,́ Russia, 1940 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Victims of crimes --- Massacres --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Victimes d'actes criminels --- Atrocities --- Atrocités