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I’m looking for German newspaper article from 1943 with note about Katyn Forest Massacre committed by Russians. <st1 =""><st1 ="">Katyn</st1> <st1 ="">Forest</st1></st1> is a wooded area near Gneizdovo village, a short distance from <st1:city><st1 ="">Smolensk</st1></st1:city> in <st1:country-region><st1 ="">Russia</st1></st1:country-region> where, in 1940 on Stalin's orders, the NKVD shot and buried over 4000 Polish service personnel that had been taken prisoner when the <st1 ="">Soviet Union</st1> invaded <st1:country-region><st1 ="">Poland</st1></st1:country-region> in September 1939 in WW2 in support of the Nazis.
In 1943 the Germans exhumed the Polish dead and blamed the Soviets. In 1944, having retaken the Katyn area from the Germans, the Soviets exhumed the Polish dead again and blamed the Nazis. The rest of the world took its usual sides in such arguments. <o =""></o>
In 1989, with the collapse of Soviet Power Gorbachev finally admitted that the Soviet NKVD had executed the Poles, and confirmed two other burial sites similar to the site at Katyn. Stalin's order of March 1940 to execute by shooting some 25,700 Poles, including those found at the three sites, was also disclosed with the collapse of Soviet Power. This particular second world war slaughter of Poles is often referred to as the "Katyn Massacre" or the "Katyn Forest Massacre".
Please help me with this! <o =""></o>
I’m looking for German newspaper article from 1943 with note about Katyn Forest Massacre committed by Russians. <st1 =""><st1 ="">Katyn</st1> <st1 ="">Forest</st1></st1> is a wooded area near Gneizdovo village, a short distance from <st1:city><st1 ="">Smolensk</st1></st1:city> in <st1:country-region><st1 ="">Russia</st1></st1:country-region> where, in 1940 on Stalin's orders, the NKVD shot and buried over 4000 Polish service personnel that had been taken prisoner when the <st1 ="">Soviet Union</st1> invaded <st1:country-region><st1 ="">Poland</st1></st1:country-region> in September 1939 in WW2 in support of the Nazis.
In 1943 the Germans exhumed the Polish dead and blamed the Soviets. In 1944, having retaken the Katyn area from the Germans, the Soviets exhumed the Polish dead again and blamed the Nazis. The rest of the world took its usual sides in such arguments. <o =""></o>
In 1989, with the collapse of Soviet Power Gorbachev finally admitted that the Soviet NKVD had executed the Poles, and confirmed two other burial sites similar to the site at Katyn. Stalin's order of March 1940 to execute by shooting some 25,700 Poles, including those found at the three sites, was also disclosed with the collapse of Soviet Power. This particular second world war slaughter of Poles is often referred to as the "Katyn Massacre" or the "Katyn Forest Massacre".
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