The Katyn Massacre When The Ussr Purged 22 000 Polish Men Then Blamed The Nazis

The Katyn massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, which used it to discredit the Soviet Union. On 14 April 1943, Goebbels wrote in his diary: "We are now using the discovery of 12,000 …

Dec 26, 2025 · The Katyn Massacre left a deep scar in Polish-Soviet relations during the remainder of the war and afterward. For Poles, Katyn became a symbol of the many victims of …

In 1918, Poland regained her independence after enduring three partitions and domination for 123 years by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Barely 21 years later, on September 1, 1939 Nazi …

Certain aerial photographs taken by German reconnaissance planes during World War II and captured after the war feature the countryside over and around Katyn and Smolensk.

The Katyn families themselves shaped Poland’s work to build Polish war cemeteries at the sites of the massacres and organise proper burials of the victims’ bodies.

First executions took place on 4 April in the afternoon. The Poles were murdered in Smolensk, Katyn, Kharkiv and Tver, and buried secretly, the content of their pockets included, in …

Katyn: Directed by Andrzej Wajda. With Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka. An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and …