Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment (annals Of Communism Series)
by Wojciech Materski /
2008 / English / PDF
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The 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes,
and civilians taken prisoner by the Red Army when it
invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 were held in
three special NKVD camps and executed at three
different sites in spring 1940, of which the one
in Katyn Forest is the most famous. Another
7,300 prisoners held in NKVD jails in Ukraine and
Belarus were also shot at this time, although
many others disappeared without trace. The
murder of these Poles is among the most monstrous
mass murders undertaken by any modern government.
The 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes,
and civilians taken prisoner by the Red Army when it
invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 were held in
three special NKVD camps and executed at three
different sites in spring 1940, of which the one
in Katyn Forest is the most famous. Another
7,300 prisoners held in NKVD jails in Ukraine and
Belarus were also shot at this time, although
many others disappeared without trace. The
murder of these Poles is among the most monstrous
mass murders undertaken by any modern government.
Three leading historians of the NKVD massacres
of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn, Kharkov, and
Tver—now subsumed under “Katyn”—present 122 documents
selected from the published Russian and Polish
volumes coedited by Natalia S. Lebedeva and Wojciech
Materski. The documents, with introductions and
notes by Anna M. Cienciala, detail the Soviet
killings, the elaborate cover-up, the admission of
the truth, and the Katyn question in
Soviet/Russian–Polish relations up to the present.
Three leading historians of the NKVD massacres
of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn, Kharkov, and
Tver—now subsumed under “Katyn”—present 122 documents
selected from the published Russian and Polish
volumes coedited by Natalia S. Lebedeva and Wojciech
Materski. The documents, with introductions and
notes by Anna M. Cienciala, detail the Soviet
killings, the elaborate cover-up, the admission of
the truth, and the Katyn question in
Soviet/Russian–Polish relations up to the present.