CHRISTOPHER DOBSON in his report on the unveiling of the Katyn memorial, says that the massacre of the 14,500 Polish prisoners of war took place in Poland in 1940. The year is correct, the place how- ever is in Russia in the district of Smolensk to be precise. May I add, for the benefit of those who still doubt whether the crime was committed by the Russians, that in Poland of today all Nazi crimes are com- memorated by a memorial of one sort or another, but not the Katyn. Should I say any more ? Perhaps only this, that in War- saw there is a little park with trees planted by the Russians as a symbol of friendship. It is called (unofficially of course !) the Katyn Forest. — T. STACHOWSKI, London, S.W.4. |
Source: the (London, U.K.) Sunday Telegraph, 26 September 1973.
Recommended reading: "Rendez-vous at Katyn", a novel by Foster Furcolo,
published in 1973 by Marlborough House, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.
In fact the massacre of these 14,500 Polish officers was only part one of the
subjugation of Poland. At the end of the war with the Soviet armies
closing in on Warsaw the Polish underground awaited the signal of the Russians
to start the Warsaw Uprising to help eject the Nazis from their country.
The Soviets gave the signal and then sat back and waited while the Germans did
the dirty work for them. Furcolo in his book tells us more about that and
touches on plenty of other aspects of this horrendous crime.
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