Road to WW2 · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Katyn massacre (1940)
On the Road to WW2 map as “Katyń”
Apr–May 1940 — The NKVD executes some 22,000 captured Polish officers, police and intelligentsia in the Katyń forest and elsewhere, by quota and by name. The USSR admits it only in 1990. Remember them.
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- Road to Operation Barbarossa (chapter 11 of Road to WW2)
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- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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