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	THE KATYN WOODS MASSACRE
		Katyn is a small village west of Smolensk near the Belarus border.
		It was in the surrounding countryside of Katyn that one of the greatest atrocities of World War II was committed.
		It was at three particular prisons in the confines of Russia that the beginning of the Katyn woods massacre came into being.
	econc10.bu.edu /economic_systems/NatIdentity/EE/Poland/KATYN.html (1416 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Katyn Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Both German and an ensuing Red Cross investigations of the Katyn corpses soon produced physical evidence that the massacre took place in early 1940, at a time when the area was still under Soviet control.
		Stalin used the Katyn Massacre unsupported allegiations as the pretext to withdraw recognition to Sikorski's government in Britain on April 26, accuse it of collaborating with Nazi Germany and start the campaign to get the Western Allies to recognize the Soviet puppet Polish government led by Wanda Wasilewska (additional info and facts about Wanda Wasilewska).
		The Katyn Massacre was beneficial to Nazi Germany, whose propaganda machine used it to discredit Soviet Union.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/katyn_massacre.htm (1736 words)

	Katyn Forest Massacre
		Katyn Forest is a wooded area near Gneizdovo village, a short distance from Smolensk in Russia where, in 1940 on Stalin's orders, the NKVD shot and buried over 4000 Polish service personnel that had been taken prisoner when the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939 in WW2 in support of the Nazis.
		I was at the memorial service in Katyn Forest in 1995, and the speakers were proposing a permanent memorial at the site; relevant, but of less relevance if the Polish dead of Katyn Forest are now elsewhere; eg, in the Dnieper River since 1944 courtesy of Stalin after the Burdenko Commission.
		Anti-semitism [many of those slaughtered in the Katyn affair were Jewish], the glories of Soviet Power [whatever they may have been], the denials of the Soviet/Nazi complicity, and the denials of Soviet slaughter may all have a place; this is not it.
	www.katyn.org.au (928 words)

	Encyclopedia: Katyn massacre
		The KatyÅ massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest Massacre, was the mass execution of Polish citizens (mostly military officers POWs) by the Soviet Union during World War II.
		Initially, the expression referred to the massacre of the Polish officers from the Kozielsk POW camp in Katyn forest near the village of Gnezdovo, a short distance from Smolensk, Soviet Union.
		Katyn Forest in the Soviet Union became known as a mass-murder site when, in April 1943, the Germans announced the discovery of mass graves of 4,000 Polish officer POWs who had been executed there in April and May 1940.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Katyn-massacre (375 words)

	Katyń massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Initially the expression referred to the massacre of the Polish military officers confined at the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp in Katyn Forest near the village of Gnezdovo, a short distance from Smolensk, Soviet Union.
		People from Kozelsk were murdered in the usual mass murder site of Smolensk country, called Katyn forest; people from Starobielsk were murdered in the inner NKVD prison of Kharkov and the bodies were buried near Pyatikhatki; and police officers from Ostashkov were murdered in the inner NKVD prison of Kalinin (Tver) and buried in Miednoje.
		In 1981, Polish trade union Solidarity erected a memorial with the simple inscription "Katyn, 1940" but it was confiscated by the police, to be replaced with an offical monument "To the Polish soldiers--victims of Hitlerite fascism--reposing in the soil of Katyn".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katyn_Massacre (5183 words)

	KATYN: How the Soviets Manufactured War Crime Documents
		This was the case in the Katyn forest until the outbreak of the war.
		Especially strictly guarded was that part of the Katyn forest known as "Kosji Gori", as well as the region along the banks of the Dnjepr, where a summer house rest centre for the NKWD offices at Smolensk was located 700 metres from where the graves of the Polish prisoners of war were discovered.
		That the Germans transported corpses by truck to the Katyn forest was also stated by JAKOWLEWSOKOLOW FLOR MAKSINOWITSCH, born 1896, former supply agent for the canteen of the Smolensk Trusts for dining rooms, and chief of the police district of Katyn during the German occupation.
	www.codoh.com /trials/trikatyn.html (13219 words)

	CNN Cold War - Spotlight: the Katyn Massacre
		Following the war, at the Nuremberg war crime tribunals, the issue of Katyn was originally included on the list of crimes attributed to the Nazis.
		In the spring of 1940, about 4,500 of these officers were taken by their Soviet captors to the Katyn forest.
		The memory of the massacre was an open wound in Soviet-Polish relations throughout the Cold War, and it continues to strain ties between Warsaw and Moscow.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/spotlight (472 words)

	nobs
		Katyn was a true test of the equity of the lawsuit.
		The test was from the beginning, from even the mention of Katyn in the Bill of Indictment, but the continuation of the lawsuit is révèlerait with the honor of the judges and the court.
		All the historians, all the serious authors who treated the Nuremberg Tribunal and tackled the question of Katyn agree for saying that the disappearance of this load in the Judgement, accuse, by defect, the Soviets, and mean that the Germans were not condemned for Katyn.
	nobsnews.blogspot.com /1994/12/katyn-in-nuremberg.html (5011 words)

	Katyn on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1943 the German government announced that the mass grave of some 4,250 Polish officers had been found in a forest near Katyn and accused the Soviets of having massacred them.
		The Purpose of the National Katyn Memorial: An Essay
		National Katyn Memorial Committee Returns to the Forest
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Katyn.asp (454 words)

	KATYN FOREST MASSACRE (1943)
		Maliszewski, who was born in Scotland in 1948, developed an interest in Katyn early in life when he learned that a relative had been among the victims.
		The head of the Association of Katyn Families recently charged that Warsaw itself is dragging its feet on demanding a complete investigation of the murders and punishment of the perpetrators who are still alive.
		Katyn, it seems, is a wound that will take more than one generation to heal.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /120503.html (3444 words)

	World War 2: Katyn Forest Massacre
		Katyn Forest, near Smolensk in Russia, place of the mass graves of over 4,300 Polish officers discovered by the German army in March of 1943.
		Katyn Forest has been one of the few locations where Polish POWs were executed in the spring of 1940.
		The responsibility for consideration of the cases and passing of the resolution to be laid on three comrades: Merkulov, Kobulov and Bashtakov (Head, 1st Special Division of the NKVD of the USSR).
	www.warsawuprising.com /katyn.htm (458 words)

	The Lies of Katyn
		The memorial honors the thousands of Polish officers who were executed and dumped into mass graves in the Spring of 1940 by the Soviet NKVD in the forest outside Katyn, a small town just west of Smolensk in Russia.
		Kolko emphasized that the "criminological evidence" proved the "culpability of both sides" and that the Katyn incident had to be "downgraded," since it was the "exception rather than the rule" in Stalin's behaviour.
		The historian went on to praise Stalin for not indulging in "liquidation" in the 1940-1945 period, stressing that "mass murder" did not occur in Poland.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3172 (735 words)

	Katyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Katyn Forest in the Soviet Union became known as a massacre site when, in April 1943, the Nazis announced the discovery of mass graves of 24,000+ Polish officer POWs who had been executed there in April and May 1940.
		Altogether, about 27,000 Polish citizens, many of them priests and intellectuals, were executed by the Soviet NKVD in what later became known as the Katyn massacre.
		Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow maintained that the Poles had been murdered by Nazis and strictly forbade all mention of the massacre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katyn (208 words)

	Books about the Katyn Forest Massacre
		Often referred to as "the survivor of Katyn" Dr Stanislaw Swianiewicz [1899-1997] was taken by the NKVD from the prisoner of war camp the Soviets had established for captured Poles at Kozielsk to Gniezdovo Station near Smolensk on 30 April 1940.
		Katyn is the major theme for this issue with a very well researched and written article by Karle Margry extensively supported by many first class photos and illustrations.
		There are other thesis on Katyn issues that I know of, but this is the only one I have the URL for.
	www.katyn.org.au /books.html (3683 words)

	The Katyn Massacre -- Free Speech, May 1998
		The war went on after the German discovery of the mass graves in the Katyn Forest, because its purpose from the beginning was not to free Poland but to destroy Germany, which had dared to free itself from the Jews.
		The lies about Katyn were maintained by the media for some years after the end of the war, because these lies meshed nicely with the "Holocaust" story which was making so much money for the Jews.
		You might remember Katyn the next time you hear the Jews or some of their bought politicians whining about how much gold was stolen from them by the Swiss or how badly the Poles and the Germans treated them during the Second World War.
	www.natall.com /free-speech/fs985b.html (2832 words)

	Katyn Forest Massacre: a voyage into the Soviet memory hole.
		Katyn is but one of many issues caught up in the fact that the Russians think they lost a battle, and the Americans think they won a war.
		I think those in the West who know the Poles are gone from Katyn are caught in their own paradigm of fear and illusion about the Soviets and quite unable to face the reality that there has been and will be no change in the Russian position on Katyn.
		There is the matter of the Soviet memorial at Katyn to the nonexistent dead POWs created in the Burdenko Commission report as part of the Soviet cover-up of the NKVD massacre.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Troy/1791/hole.html (3153 words)

	Katyn History
		During the evacuation of the three camps, groups of 200 to 300 prisoners were taken to an unknown destination that turned out to be a site in the Katyn Forest.
		In an effort to expose the truth about the massacre in the Katyn Forest, the Germans took a number of people to the grave site, including two American Army Officers who had been captured and were POW’s.
		The Katyn Forest stood in mute silence to this terrible deed.
	www.polishcommunity.com /katyn2/Katyn/katyn_history.htm (926 words)

	Katyn Massacre -- 'The Lost 10,000'
		But 'Katyn' is a collective word used to embrace not only those 4,500 found in the forest of that name, but a further 10,000 murdered at the same time.
		As most people now know the Soviet accusation about Katyn fell to the ground and it is a matter for international shame that the whole subject was dropped and no mention of Katyn appears in the final judgment of the Nuremberg trials.
		"The question of the Katyn crime had been investigated in1944 by an official commission, and it was established that the Katyn case was the work of Hitlerite criminals, as was made public in the press on 26 January 1944.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v01/v01p-31_FitzGibbon.html (3859 words)

	Katyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A fragmentary and non-scientific paper was published by Zdzislaw Rurarz in 1988 in "Kontakt" on the subject of ground disturbances at Katyn.
		Poirier after the examination of publications related to Katyn, having at his disposal the interpretation of air photographs - presented a hypothesis that the corpses of the murdered Polish Army officers have been probably moved out from Katyn Forest or secretly buried in other place.
		In Poland the photointerpretation of air photographs from Katyn Forest was carried out in 1991 in the Laboratory of Geographical Photointerpretation, at the Department of Geography and Regional Studies of the Warsaw University.
	www.wgsr.uw.edu.pl /zts/katyn_en.htm (646 words)

	The Katyn Controversy: Stalin's Killing Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Katyn Forest massacre was a criminal act of historic proportions and enduring political implications.
		Katyn was a forbidden topic in postwar Poland.
		While Katyn was erased from Poland's official history, it could not be erased from historical memory.
	www.cia.gov /csi/studies/winter99-00/art6.html (5854 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Katyn Massacre [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Katyń Forest Massacre, also known as the Katyn massacre, occurred in the Soviet Union, in a forest near Gnezdovo village, a short distance from Smolensk, during World War II.
		for Katyn, the station was called Gniazdowo), and were transported from the station to the place of execution in trucks with blinded screens.
		Every individual was separately bound and taken to the side of the grave, shot in the back of the head, and then pushed or allowed to fall into the grave.
	encyclozine.com /Katyn_Massacre (1344 words)

	Khatyn vs Katyn
		In fact, Khatyn and Katyn are two entirely different places; Khatyn, in which the 'kh' is pronounced like the English 'h' is a small village some 30 miles to the north-east of Minsk, the capital of Byelorussia.
		Katyn, which is pronounced as written, is a town about 15 miles west of Smolensk, a provincial city in Russia proper.
		Katyn fell into German hands in the late summer of 1941 and at the beginning of 1943 the German army discovered a mass grave of 4,443 Polish officers and men.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v01/v01p230_FitzGibbon.html (1002 words)

	Katyn
		While conducting research on Katyn at the Archives in spring 1990, a Polish-American art and antiques expert named Waclaw Godziemba-Maliszewski was given a copy of an article entitled "The Katyn Enigma: New Evidence in a 40-Year Riddle" that had appeared in the Spring 1981 issue of Studies in Intelligence.
		The manuscript was entitled "Katyn: An Interpretation of Aerial Photographs Considered with Facts and Documents," and it eventually appeared as a special issue of the Polish journal Photo-Interpretation in Geography: Problems of Telegeoinformation with parallel texts in Polish and English.
		The Katyn Forest Massacre: Hearings before the Select Committee on Conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre, 82d Congress, lst and 2d Session, 1951-1952, 7 parts.
	www.videofact.com /katyn2.htm (5764 words)

	The Katyn Massacre Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Russian Prime Minister Viktor Khirstenko attended a ceremony with Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek to commemorate a cemetery dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre in the Spring of 1940.
		Unfortunately the rest of the world was to learn about the Katyn massacre from another butcherous army -- in 1943 the German army discovered a mass grave outside of the city of Katyn containing the remains of 4,000 Polish officers.
		The Lies of Katyn by Jamie Glazov, FrontpageMag.Com, August 8, 2000.
	www.leftwatch.com /articles/2000/000087.html (658 words)

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