The Katyń Massacre

Author : Thomas Urban
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526775382

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The Katyn Massacre 1940 by Thomas Urban Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
ISBN : OSU:32435078695582

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The Katyn Forest Massacre by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre Pdf

Author : Teresa Kaczorowska
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786483761

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Children of the Katyn Massacre by Teresa Kaczorowska Pdf

World War II was—and remains—one of the bloodiest wars in history. Not only did millions of soldiers die in combat but millions of civilians lost their lives—some for no greater crime than their religious heritage or their nationality. The Soviets, at first allied with the Germans, incarcerated thousands of Polish military officers and reservists in the pre-established Soviet camps of Ostashkov, Starobelsk and Kozelsk. On March 5, 1940, Joseph Stalin and his lieutenants signed an execution order for 25,700 Polish prisoners of war. After months of hardship and interrogation, 14,700 prisoners from these camps were taken to remote areas, murdered with a shot to the back of the head and buried in mass graves. Later, when Germany turned its sights on the Soviet Union, the USSR allied itself with the West. With the discovery of the first of the mass burials by the Germans in the Katyn Forest (the area from which the entire massacre gets its name), the Soviets attempted to place the blame for the atrocities on the Germans in spite of a plethora of evidence to the contrary. Only in 1990, with the fall of communism, did President Mikhail Gorbachev admit Soviet responsibility for the Katyn murders. Compiled from a series of interviews, this emotionally moving account records the stories and fates of 18 men and women, 16 of whom lost their fathers in the Katyn massacre. The author traveled to Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Canada and the United States to talk extensively with the 18, recording their thoughts, feelings, memories and experiences of the hardships during and after the war. Photographs and maps are included.

Author : Jane Rogoyska
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786078933

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Surviving Katyn by Jane Rogoyska Pdf

WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE ‘A gripping reconstruction… utterly compelling reading.’ Adam Zamoyski ‘This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.’ Geoffrey Alderman, Times Higher Education The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake – the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators – whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost.

Author : Victor Zaslavsky
Publisher : Telos Press, Limited
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132279444

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Class Cleansing by Victor Zaslavsky Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the Katyn Forest Massacre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
ISBN : UOM:39015005687275

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The Katyn Forest Massacre by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the Katyn Forest Massacre Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940
ISBN : IND:30000090953542

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The Katyn Forest Massacre by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre Pdf

Author : Wojciech Materski
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300151855

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Katyn by Wojciech Materski Pdf

In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union carried out the mass executions of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work details the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up of the crime, and the subsequent revelations.

Author : J. K. Zawodny
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786251671

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Death In The Forest; The Story Of The Katyn Forest Massacre by J. K. Zawodny Pdf

MORE THAN 15,000 Polish soldiers, among them 800 Doctors of Medicine, were murdered in one operation. Originally they had been taken into captivity by the Soviet Army in 1939. There was a possibility, however, that the prisoners, while still alive, had been taken from Soviet custody by German forces in 1941. Some of the bodies were found in German-held territory. The ropes with which their hands were tied were Soviet-made, but the bullets with which the men were killed were of German origin. The Soviet and German governments accused each other of the massacre. To obtain or remove the evidence, the intelligence services of several nations carried on a merciless secret contest in the Katyn Forest, Poland, Germany, Italy, England, and the United States. Men disappeared; so did files, including one from the United States Military Intelligence Office. In the process a key witness was found hanged, diplomatic and military careers were destroyed in the United States, personnel of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg lied by omission, and so did some of the greatest Allied leaders of the Second World War. This book attempts to reconstruct, in detail, the fate of the prisoners and to provide the answers to these questions: (1) Who killed these men? (2) How were they killed? (3) Why were they killed?

Author : Grover Furr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
ISBN : 0692134255

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The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre by Grover Furr Pdf

In April 1943, German authorities claimed that they had found the bodies of more than 4,000 Polish prisoners of war buried near Katyn, in the Western Soviet Union. The Polish exile government in London agreed with the Germans. In January, 1944, Soviet authorities issued a report claiming that the Germans had murdered the Polish POWs. In 1990-92 Soviet, then Russian authorities agreed that the Soviets were indeed the guilty party. But by 2010 serious evidence had been discovered that cast doubt on Soviet guilt. There has never been an objective, thorough study of this mystery - until now. All mainstream accounts blame the USSR - Stalin - for the deaths, while all the evidence points in the opposite direction. Grover Furr has identified, obtained, and studied all the evidence, and has also studied all the supposedly "authoritative" scholarly accounts of Katyn, with skill and - what is most important - with objectivity. In this book he lays out the evidence and solves this mystery for once and for all.

Author : George Sanford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134302994

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Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940 by George Sanford Pdf

The Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and in other camps in 1940 was one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War. The truth about the massacres was long suppressed, both by the Soviet Union, and also by the United States and Britain who wished to hold together their wartime alliance with the Soviet Union. This informative book examines the details of this often overlooked event, shedding light on what took place especially in relation to the massacres at locations other than Katyn itself. It discusses how the truth about the killings was hidden, how it gradually came to light and why the memory of the massacres has long affected Polish-Russian relations.

Author : John H. Lauck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014601481

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Katyn Killings by John H. Lauck Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katyn?, Russia, 1940
ISBN : LOC:00008381240

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The Katyn Forest Massacre by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre Pdf

Author : M.B. Szonert
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477155806

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Katyn: State-Sponsored Extermination by M.B. Szonert Pdf

KATYN: State-Sponsored Extermination is an insightful collection of essays and captivating historical photographs surrounding the mass murder of Polish officers and mass deportations of their families by the Soviet Union, a criminal act of historic proportions and enduring political implications. In March 1940 Joseph Stalin decided to exterminate 25,700 best sons of Poland based on the cold calculation that "death of one person amounts to a tragedy but death of millions amounts to mere statistics." We, the people, have the moral obligation to assure that the rational on which Joseph Stalin based his genocidal decision is wrong. This collection of essays is an attempt to draw public attention to the fact that the Katyn Crime has not been fully disclosed, adequately adjudicated, and properly condemned to this day. Accordingly, families of those who perished in the Katyn hecatomb are yet to find peace since the moral calculus that brings about closure has not been worked out with respect to the Katyn Crime.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
ISBN : 1901240193

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Document USSR-54 by Anonim Pdf

'The Report by a Special Soviet Commission, 24 January 1944, concerning the shooting of Polish officer prisoners of war in the forest of Katyn. The executions had been carried out in autumn in 1941 by the German "Staff of the Construction Battalion 537." In spring 1943 the Germans, by blackmailing witnesses into giving false evidence and by other means, had tried to make it appear that the Soviet NKWD was responsible for the shooting of the 11,000 victims.'--T.p. verso.