Death In The Forest; The Story Of The Katyn Forest Massacre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zawodny, J. K. (Janusz Kazimierz)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Verdun Press, 2015.

Summary:

MORE THAN 15, 000 Polish soldiers, among them 800 Doctors of Medicine, were murdered in one operation. Originally they had been taken into captivity by the Soviet Army in 1939. There was a possibility, however, that the prisoners, while still alive, had been taken from Soviet custody by German forces in 1941. Some of the bodies were found in German-held territory. The ropes with which their hands were tied were Soviet-made, but the bullets with which the men were killed were of German origin.The Soviet and German governments accused each other of the massacre. To obtain or remove the evidence, the intelligence services of several nations carried on a merciless secret contest in the Katyn Forest, Poland, Germany, Italy, England, and the United States. Men disappeared; so did files, including one from the United States Military Intelligence Office. In the process a key witness was found hanged, diplomatic and military careers were destroyed in the United States, personnel of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg lied by omission, and so did some of the greatest Allied leaders of the Second World War.This book attempts to reconstruct, in detail, the fate of the prisoners and to provide the answers to these questions: (1) Who killed these men? (2) How were they killed? (3) Why were they killed?

Contents:

Intro

DEDICATION

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Illustrations

Pictures

Map And Table

Abbreviations

I - The Prisoners Who Vanished

2 - The Graves in the Forest

3 - The Inconvenient Allies-Alive and Dead

4 - The Soviet Commission Investigation

5 - Nuremberg: Crime and Punishment in International Politics

6 - Analysis of the Evidence

7 - Reconstruction: To the Edge of the Graves

8 - Reconstruction: Marked to Live and Marked to Die

9 - Problems Caused by Katyn after the War

REACTIONS OF THE POLISH AND SOVIET GOVERNMENTS: DISCREPANCIES AND DIFFICULTIES

POLICIES OF THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH GOVERNMENTS TOWARD THE KATYN INCIDENT

Appendix

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary Sources

1. Interviews

2. Documents

3. Bibliographies

4. Books

5. Pamphlets

6. Journals

7. Newspapers and Magazines.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781786251671

1786251671

OCLC:

975225275