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  HighBeam Encyclopedia - Katyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
KATYN [Katyn], village, W central European Russia, 12 mi (19 km) W of Smolensk.
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.
In 1992 Russian officials released secret documents that proved Stalin's direct involvement in the Katyn massacre.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Katyn.asp   (384 words)

  
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Slowes, Salomon W. The Road to Katyn: A Soldier's Story Blackwell (Oxford) 1992, 1st edit, 234 pp, photos, Slowes memories as a Polish Medical Officer captured by the Soviets, very good+, DJ, $20
Whiting, Charles The Battle of Hurtgen Forest Orion (NY) 1989, 1st edit, 290 pp, photos, maps, very good+, DJ, $35
Zawodny, JK Death in the Forest: The Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre Univ of Notre Dame (Notre Dame) 1972, 2nd edit, 235 pp, photos, good+, DJ, $25
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