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.
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