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	Katyn massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest Massacre (Polish: Katyń), was a mass execution of Polish citizens by the order of Soviet authorities in 1940.
		The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred to the massacre, at Katyn Forest, near the village of Gnezdovo, near Smolensk, Russia, of Polish military officers confined at the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp.
		The Russian government has admitted Soviet responsibility for the massacres, although it does not classify them a war crime or an act of genocide, as this would have necessitated the prosecution of surviving perpetrators, which is what the Polish government has requested.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katyn_Massacre (5624 words)

	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 (1101 words)

	KATYN FOREST MASSACRE (1943)
		The Katyń massacre, as the event is known, has long served as a symbol of Soviet crimes against Poland.
		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)

	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)

	Decision to commence investigation into Katyn Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Because of the circumstances of the Katyn Massacre, i.e.
		On the 54th day of that trial, Prosecutor Yuri Pokrovskiy, deputy chief Soviet counsel for the prosecution, presented the Katyn Massacre as an atrocity that had taken the lives of 11,000 Polish victims and said that this Massacre was subject to the judgment of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.
		This permits the application, on the basis of this Convention, of the principle of non-limitation of war crimes and crimes against humanity as legal norms that are universally binding with respect to the Katyn Massacre, which combines the characteristics of a war crime and a crime against humanity.
	www.ipn.gov.pl /eng/eng_news_high_katyn_decision.html (9693 words)

	Amazon.com: Katyn: Stalin's Massacre and the Seeds of Polish Resurrection: Books: Allen Paul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The world still knows very little about the Katyn Massacre, and until recently many people believed that the massacre had been committed by the Germans, so effective was the propaganda machine of the Soviet Union and its supporters and collaborators the worldover.
		Katyn: Massacre of the Polish intelligentsia by the USSR.
		The Katyn massacre is a grim reminder of what the Soviet Union and its supporters and sympathizers were all about.
	www.amazon.com /Katyn-Stalins-Massacre-Polish-Resurrection/dp/1557506701 (773 words)

	USATODAY.com - Poles mark Stalin's Katyn Forest massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Krystyna Balcer, a 62-year-old retiree whose uncle was killed in Katyn, remained angry about the massacre and the Soviet invasion of Poland prior to World War II, carried out under a secret agreement between Stalin and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
		The massacre "was unimaginable cruelty, it was genocide."
		The massacre is still an irritant to relations between Poland and Russia.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-03-05-stalin-massacre_x.htm?csp=34 (518 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.
		Puts the Katyn massacre in context with the war Stalin endlessly fought with the Russian people, and details the resources he diverted from fighting the Nazis to oppress the gulag population.
	www.katyn.org.au /books.html (3683 words)

	Communique on the Katyñ Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Then it is stated, that “in the course of preliminary investigation in a criminal case, unfortunately, it has not been ascertained, upon which regulation of the Penal Code of the RF (edited in 1926) certain persons were penalized, because the documentation has been destroyed”.
		The decision of March 5th, 1940 indicates without a doubt, that Katyñ Massacre was a deed of the heaviest political repression.
		The refusal of applying regulations of the rehabilitation law to the victims of Katyñ Crime and the justification of this decision may be acknowledged as humiliation of the memory of Polish victims and violation of feelings of the members of their families.
	www.ipn.gov.pl /eng/eng_news_high_katyn_massacre.html (441 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Katyn Massacre
		The Katyn massacre was a dreadful atrocity which, to this day, provokes strong emotions.
		The report, whose publication coincides with the 60th anniversary of the discovery by the Germans of the mass graves in Katyn, traces the development of the British response to the massacre.
		To bring the Katyn story up to the present day, the FCO Historians have supplemented the Butler memorandum with an introduction, which covers the whole period 1943-2003, along with a small selection of further documents.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1049114089000 (573 words)

	::The Katyn Wood Massacre::
		The first news of a massacre at Katyn Wood came in April 1943 when the Germans found a mass grave of 4,500 Polish soldiers in German-occupied Russia.
		Locals at Katyn Forest had long known that it was an area used by the secret police to execute those who had fallen out with Stalin's government.
		For their part the Russians claimed that the massacre took place after it became obvious that the Wehrmacht was in full retreat after their defeat at Stalingrad and that it was carried out by the Nazis.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /katyn_wood_massacre.htm (2084 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Poland opens 1940 massacre probe
		The massacre - in Katyn Forest near the Russian city of Smolensk - happened while the Poles were held prisoner.
		The Katyn massacre has been a sensitive issue in relations between Russia and Poland for more than a decade since the fall of communism in both countries.
		The prosecutors refused to describe the massacre as a war crime or a crime against humanity.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4060479.stm (289 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.
		It seems an appropriate moment again to call for an international pronouncement on the Katyn massacre, for one thing is certain: the case will never die until that pronouncement is made and the perpetrators condemned.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v01/v01p-31_FitzGibbon.html (3824 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Who Is Guilty of the Katyn Massacre? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hudson, G. THE massacre of Katyn is quite unique among the famous atrocities mew was committed by the French Catholics, of history in that there is doubt by or that the massacre of Chios was the work whom...
		...THE massacre of Katyn is quite unique among the famous atrocities mew was committed by the French Catholics, of history in that there is doubt by or that the massacre of Chios was the work whom it was committed...
		...THE Katyn story begins with the capture of a large part of the Polish army in September 1939 by the Soviet forces that invaded Poland from the east seventeen days after the Germans had invaded it from the west...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V13I3P7-1.htm (3402 words)

	CNN: The Katyn Massacre - the real story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.africancrisis.org /NewsView.asp?Rec=8436&EID=0& (515 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 - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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 1989 Soviet scholars revealed that Stalin had indeed ordered the massacre and the following year Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev apologized to the Polish people for the killings.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Katyn.asp (358 words)

	Notes on the Katyn Forest Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When the Soviet army recaptured the Katyn area from the Germans, the Soviets exhumed the Polish dead again, blamed the Nazis and disposed of the bodies.
		Katyn Forest Massacre: Polish Deaths at Soviet Hands (also at www.katyn.org.au/index.html), by David Mirams, is a really exhaustive site with images, that includes Stalin's order for the Katyn Forest Massacre
		Never Forgotten, Never Forgiven: Katyn 1940, is a very well done site with photos of almost all of the victims, and official documents relating to the massacre.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/evans/HIS242/Notes/Katyn.html (452 words)

	Katyn Forest Massacre: Photos of the sites
		If you wish to use these photos for non-commercial purposes I consent to such use as long as the source of the photo/s is clearly acknowledged in the same publication as the photo/s you wish to reproduce.
		After all it was down that side road that so many went to their deaths or burials, including the Poles who were buried at the site in 1940.
		Rev Msgr Zdzislaw Jastrzebiec Peszkowski, Priest of Katyn, at Katyn in 1995.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /katyn/photos.html (720 words)

	Katyn Massacre - Free English Encyclopedia from Turkcebilgi
		The term andquot;Katyn massacreandquot; originally referred to the massacre, at Katyn Forest, near the village of Gnezdovo, near Smolensk, Russia, of Polish military officers confined at the Kozelsk [[prisoner-of-war camp]].
		The Soviet Union continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it acknowledged that the NKVD had in fact committed the massacres and the subsequent cover-up.andlt;ref name=andquot;bbc161204andquot;andgt;BBC News story : Russia to release massacre files, December 16, 2004 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4102967.stm online]andlt;/refandgt; The Russian government has admitted Soviet responsibility for the massacres.
		The investigations that indicted the German state rather than the Soviet state for the killings are sometimes used to impeach the Nuremberg Trials in their entirety, often in support of Holocaust denial, or to question the legitimacy and/or wisdom of using the criminal law to prohibit Holocaust denial.
	www.turkcebilgi.com /ansiklopedi/english/Katyn_massacre (3761 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the so-called Katyn atrocities, personally ordered by Stalin in 1940, the NKVD (forerunner of the KGB) killed 21,587 Polish Army reservists in cold blood on the grounds that they were "hardened and uncompromising enemies of Soviet authority".
		Katyn massacre not Stalin’s fault, says Russia 06.03.2006 After years of enquiry Russian authorities have concluded that the Katyn massacre — when over twenty thousand Polish officers were killed in 1940 — was not an act of Stalinist repression.
		Poland calls on Russia to recognize Katyn massacre as crime against humanity 17.04.2005 Poland's president called on Russia to recognize the massacre of thousands of Polish soldiers during WW II in the Katyn forest in western Russia as a crime against humanity.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=katyn (3377 words)

	Stalin Society
		In 1971 there was correspondence in The Times suggesting the Katyn massacres could not have been done by the Germans since they went in for machine gunning and gas chambers rather than despatching prisoners in the way the Katyn victims had been killed, i.e., by a shot in the back of the head.
		One witness was Alexeyeva who had been detailed by the headman of her village to serve the German personnel at a country house in the section of the Katyn Forest known as Kozy Gory, which had been the rest home of the Smolensk administration of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
		Evidence was also given as to how the Germans 'doctored' the graves of the victims to try to eliminate evidence that the massacre took place not in the autumn of 1941 but in the spring of 1940 shortly after the Poles first arrived in the area.
	www.stalinsociety.org.uk /katyn.html (5906 words)

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