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- 1.Katyn Massacre - Wikipedia
- Describes the massacre of Polish officers from the Kozielsk POW camp in Katyn forest as well as executions of regular Polish citizens by the Soviet Union during ...
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atyn_Massacre
- 2.Katyn massacre: Information from Answers.com
- Katyn Massacre Mass killing of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union in World War II. ... For more information on Katyn Massacre, visit Britannica.com. English ...
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How could the Germans prove I saw the Polish film "Katyn",
which reveals the mass murder
of more than 10 thousand
Polish military officers by
the NKVD at the Katyn forest
in the suburbs of Smolensk,
Russia in the spring of 1940.
According to history and the
film as well, the Soviets
claimed that it was committed
by the German Gestapo, and
they used it as an anti-Nazi
campaign.
Of course, Goebbels also tried
to use it as an
anti-Bolshevistic propaganda
in the German-occupied
countries.
Could you tell me how the
Germans managed to prove the
massacre was committed by the
NKVD, not by the Gestapo?
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wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massa cre I want to make sure you're not really asking two questions here: 1. How did the Nazis prove the Soviets did it? 2. Who really did it? In answer to #2, there is absolutely no doubt now that the Soviets did it. Gorbachev apologized, if nothing else. In answer to #1, the victims were last seen alive in the captivity of the Soviets. The Nazis called the Red Cross in to investigate. As to what forensic evidence they produced, I don't know and I didn't see it in the link above. Certainly it fit the modus operandi of the NKVD (small caliber round to the base of the skull, I believe). So from where we are now, your question is probably moot, if you're trying to stir something up. Of course, during the war Roosevelt and Churchill would have loved it it could have been proved that the Nazis did it, not their allies, the Soviets. So there was some of that sentiment lurking over the whole thing. Parenthetically I should add that the Lenin or Stalin withdrew from the Geneva Conventions in the 1920 - a capitalist artifact, don't you know?- and therefore may have done nothing illegal. The Nazis reciprocated in their treatment of Soviet POWs - which I think is understandable. |
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Soviet Katyn Massacre?
What was the motive behind the
act; why did Stalin order it?
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Stalin eventually wanted to take over the whole of Poland; wiping out the Polish officer corps firstly removed the possibility of experienced soldiers providing leadership for any armed resistance to this. Secondly, many of those killed were junior officers from the middle classes, who had volunteered or been called up in 1939.Most were university educated, so Stalin was also destroying a whole generation of Polish intelligentsia, the very people who might provide political and intellectual leadership of the Poles against any future attempted Soviet takeover.And, of course, the middle classes were, ideologically, the main enemies of the working classes, so the killings were also an act of class war. |
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Katyn forest massacre?
Why did the russians kill all
the Polish POW
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the decision to kill them was made by the priest stalin,10,000 guys with great education in war,peace,art,engineering,,,an d humanity,,which of course would have posed a danger to no one except the drunk and paranoid garbage stalin,,,they were killed in 43 or 44,, mikhail gorbechov finally admitted and apologized for this in 90 or 91 |
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