Katyn massacre
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The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals and civilian prisoners of war by Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members the Polish Officer Corps dated March 5 1940. This official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, with the most commonly cited number of 21.768.
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Exhumation in 1943
In 1943 German troups exhumated about 4100 corpses and put together an international committe. The committe checked the age of the corpses and the way that they were killed, and both proved, that the killings were done by the Soviets.
False accusations
After the Soviets re-occupied the area, they did their best to show, that the killings were done by Germans. They also tried in Nuremberg to accuse the Germans, but even there, this was not successful.
After the war
After the war the subject Katyn was largerly not discuted, Only in the 1990-er years was possible to discuss the events of Katyn, and also films were made about Katyn.
