Katyn massacre event
also: Katyn Forest massacre, Katyn Forest, atrocity, mass murder, prisoners had been murdered, slaughter, wholesale shooting of Polish officers, massacre of Polish officers
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Claims (4)
Soviet Union covered_up
Katyn massacre documented
“The Soviets conceded that the Polish officers had been arrested in 1939 and that the number of them in the internment prison camp and that they had put them in the prison camp, but they were not murdered by the Soviets. Instead, the Nazis w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 31:23
U.S. State Department covered_up
Katyn massacre host_asserted
“British Foreign Office staff in Moscow referred to the wholesale shooting of Polish officers in the declaration's list of victims of Nazi atrocities rather than to the Italian officers, as had been agreed by the three foreign ministers. The…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 34:58
Joseph Goebbels exposed
Katyn massacre host_asserted
“So this is purposeful sabotage. At the Goebbels' ministry in Berlin, the propagandists noticed the difference between the two translations and exploited the blunder to call the massacre of Polish officers back to the central focus in the mi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 35:28
Soviet Union ordered_assassination_of
Katyn massacre host_asserted
“So this is purposeful sabotage. At the Goebbels' ministry in Berlin, the propagandists noticed the difference between the two translations and exploited the blunder to call the massacre of Polish officers back to the central focus in the mi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 35:28
Mentions (15)
▶ 29:59
That was to shake up the alliance to its foundation and leave a lasting mark on post-war politics. On April 13th, the German press reported that German army reconnaissance units had discovered a mass grave of thousands of slain Polish army …
▶ 30:27
that during the 1939 division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, there had been 15,000 Polish officers arrested. They held them in POW camps for six months, then systematically murdered them. The German announcement said that 1…
▶ 30:57
10,000 more Polish prisoners still unaccounted for. Either way, it was a massacre. The early Soviet reply to the story claimed that the Polish officers had never been in Soviet hands at all and that the graves discovered at the forest were …
▶ 31:23
The Soviets conceded that the Polish officers had been arrested in 1939 and that the number of them in the internment prison camp and that they had put them in the prison camp, but they were not murdered by the Soviets. Instead, the Nazis w…
▶ 31:53
The Germans concocted the hoax, as the Soviets called it, as a means of splitting the Allies. There were several problems with this story. Some of them were apparent at the time, and others were discovered later. First, there were documents…
▶ 32:23
all of which offered a testimony to the fact that the prisoners had been murdered in the late spring or early summer of 1940, a year before the German invasion. The method of execution also pointed to the Soviets. The prisoners' hands had b…
▶ 32:53
These clearly dating from the mid-1930s when the camp was under the Soviets' control, where an identical method had been employed. Other forensic evidence was available. The Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels knew that a psychological weapon…
▶ 34:52
Most of the Moscow-based Poles had little affection for the general and described them as fascist. The discovery of this atrocity proved to be a breaking point. The London Poles at first refrained from denouncing their ally, the Soviet Unio…
▶ 35:15
Then a previously unknown Moscow-based group called the Union of Polish Patriots announced that Sikorsky had been compromised by fascists and his government no longer commanded the support of free Poles. On April 19th, gotta love that date,…
▶ 38:08
It became one of the first major splits in the East-West attitude towards the treatment of Nazi criminals and equally important towards the Allied management of the war. The Soviet Union had brought this upon itself because of the mass murd…
▶ 38:37
considering their record during the early purge trials and the famine in Ukraine. But the Soviets' crimes in Poland and Stalin's refusal to take responsibility for it seriously undermined Allies' unity against Nazi Germany at the time when …
▶ 42:27
In the next chapter, as we're going to find out. So that's it for today's lesson. And you guys are going to love the next chapter. All right. What's going on out there? Go ahead, Ron. It's interesting that you talked about the thing with th…
▶ 43:03
The Russians still kept trying to blame the Germans for that. And it was actually the Poles in the Nuremberg trials that were like, ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This was you guys. And the Poles would never let the Russians live that down…
▶ 34:58
British Foreign Office staff in Moscow referred to the wholesale shooting of Polish officers in the declaration's list of victims of Nazi atrocities rather than to the Italian officers, as had been agreed by the three foreign ministers. The…
▶ 35:28
So this is purposeful sabotage. At the Goebbels' ministry in Berlin, the propagandists noticed the difference between the two translations and exploited the blunder to call the massacre of Polish officers back to the central focus in the mi…