The Katyn Massacre: Cover-up, Suppression, and the Politics of War, From an American Perspective
Journal: Digital Commons - Hamline (Hamline University)
Year: 2017

Abstract In the spring of 1940, roughly twenty two thousand Polish officers, the cream of Poland’s intelligentsia, were executed in Katyn forest. While the Soviet Union blamed Nazi Germany for the massacre, in the past seventy years all gathered evidence including documents from the Soviet archives, point out to the Soviet Union as responsible for the killings. However, the British and American governments, who had knowledge of the Katyn Massacre, were engaged in a suppression of the truth, duri