Polish officers in Katyn were shot by the Nazis, not by the NKVD
April 21, 16:38
RIA Novosti reports that the Poles in Katyn were shot by the Nazis, not by the NKVD,
Polish officers in Katyn were shot by the Nazis, not by the NKVD
Polish officers in Katyn in 1941 were shot by the Nazis, and not by employees of the NKVD of the USSR - this was testified back in 1945 by a participant in the burial of the killed Poles, later a fighter of the German "special purpose" battalion Arno Dure.
"We slept during the day, and in the evening and at night we worked - digging holes. Parts of the SS brought people in cars and dumped them into a ditch 15-20 meters deep," Dure said.
He also told how in 1943 he came home on vacation and saw in the newspapers a photograph of this huge grave.
“It was written under the picture that the Russians did it all. I told my mother that it was not the Russians who did it, but the Germans, but my mother did not believe me,” Dure said.
(More photos of documents at link.)
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I have been writing about this for over 15 years. Of course, the Nazis shot the Poles in Katyn. This should be recognized at the state level, especially since the only court decision regarding Katyn is quite clear that the Poles were shot by the Nazis in the autumn of 1941.
Playing along with the Poles and the Goebbels version at the present time looks simply ridiculous.
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Polish flags disappeared in Katyn
June 29, 2022
The Russian Foreign Ministry has officially confirmed that Polish flags have been removed from the memorials in Katyn and Medny.
The official motivation is the hostile Russophobic policy of Poland.
In this way, circumstances will force the Goebbels version of Katyn to be abandoned.
And in general, there is reason to think about the elimination of these memorials in response to the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Poland.
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Historical boomerang of falsifications
April 5, 2022
Since the 90s, with a tenacity worthy of better use, we have been pulling Goebbels' sticky stuff about Katyn, which I have been writing about since the second half of the 2000s (even before this blog appeared).
The other day, the historical boomerang returned when the current authorities were accused of about the same thing. So blasphemous and cynical.
It is clear that in both cases, we face a fascist provocation. But at the same time, the story is not without irony.
Interestingly, the state version of the events in Bucha, as well as the conclusions of the Burdenko commission, will also be declared "false justifications for the totalitarian regime"?
By the way, as it is not difficult to see from the current military-political situation, the attempt to please the Poles by accepting the Goebbels version of Katyn for some reason did not help.
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"The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre"
March 27, 2020
Here it turns out that the well-known American historian Grover Furr has published a new book, and not a simple one, but on Katyn.
Furr became widely known for publishing a book devoted to Khrushchev's falsifications related to the 20th Congress and the de-Stalinization campaign, which caused enormous damage to the USSR.
This book was very good (who has not read it, you can read it here
https://avidreaders.ru/read-book/antist ... dlost.html ), so the author has a certain credibility. Well, here is Katyn.
A book about the large-scale historical falsification of the Katyn case was presented in Tver
The book "Secrets of the Katyn Massacre: Evidence, Solution" was presented on March 25 in Tver. Its uniqueness is due to the breadth of the evidence presented and the circle of people who took part in the creation of this project.
The author of the book, an American professor (University of Montclair, USA) Grover Furr, admitted during an online connection that initially he had no doubts about the official version of the Katyn tragedy, which blamed the Stalinist regime for the execution of several thousand Polish citizens. But later, when he tried to study the evidentiary part of these accusations, there were serious inconsistencies in the widely replicated facts that required additional study. And this study led the author to an unequivocal position: the official version of the Katyn massacre is the result of a large-scale falsification of Goebbels, aimed at causing a split between the allies on the eve of the Tehran conference.

Grover Furr is a professor of medieval studies who, in addition to his main specialty, studies the era of the USSR in the 20-50s.
The same version is shared by one of the benefactors, on whose money this book was published in Russia, Anatoly Wasserman. In principle, the book, published in a circulation of 1000 copies, is a people's international project, implemented at the expense of people from Russia, America, France, Bulgaria, who want to know the truth, not polished for this or that ideological task.
For almost 80 years, the version about the involvement of the Soviet Union in the execution of Poles in the Katyn forest near Smolensk, which is 18 km from Vitebsk, has been widely circulated. The first president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, during the years of his reign, admitted the guilt of the state in this tragedy. It would seem that the issue is settled, but not everyone agrees with this alignment. Indeed, in the fall of 1939, 6,300 Poles were imprisoned in a camp located on the territory of the Nilo-Stolobenskaya Hermitage on Lake Seliger. There is a strong opinion that later they were shot, the list of the dead is carved on the graves of the memorial in Medny. It is a paradox, but many of those declared dead appeared as living in various documentation after 1940. Personal tokens with their names were also found during excavations in Western Ukraine.
It was the Nazis who in April 1943 informed the world about the "unprecedented crime of the Bolsheviks" - the execution of thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn forest.
The German investigation began in February 1943, based on the testimony of local residents who allegedly witnessed how, in March-April 1940, NKVD officers brought captured Poles to the Katyn Forest, who were never seen alive again.
The news of the destruction of Polish officers by the NKVD was bound to cause a break in relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London.
In February 1946, the "Katyn massacre" became one of the episodes considered by the Nuremberg Tribunal. The Soviet side, blaming Germany for the execution, nevertheless failed to prove its case in court. Adherents of the “NKVD crime” version are inclined to consider such a verdict in their favor, but their opponents categorically disagree with them. As evidence, they cite facts: cartridge cases from German weapons, a method of tying prisoners, which is characteristic of the German side, and many others.
During the years of “perestroika”, documents were allegedly found in the Soviet archives, indicating that the execution of the Poles was carried out by the NKVD with the personal sanction of Stalin. Subsequently, a TASS statement was released in which the Soviet Union pleaded guilty to the shooting, declaring it "one of the grave crimes of Stalinism." The main evidence of the guilt of the USSR is now considered to be the so-called “package number 1”, which was stored in a secret special folder of the Archive of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
Meanwhile, the researchers draw attention to the fact that the documents from "package number 1" have a huge number of inconsistencies, allowing them to be considered fake. A lot of such documents, seemingly testifying to the crimes of Stalinism, appeared at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, but most of them were exposed as fakes. However, supporters of the “guilt of the Nazis” version reasonably note that the investigation of the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office was carried out in years when the thesis about “Soviet guilt for Katyn” was supported by the leaders of the Russian Federation, and therefore, it is not necessary to talk about an objective investigation. Today, the military departments are ready to release new documents from closed archives that will shed light on this story.
So far, only one thing is known: out of more than 6 thousand Poles allegedly shot near Katyn, a little more than 240 bodies were exhumed, of which only 16 were identified. Moreover, the excavations were carried out exclusively by the Polish side.
The participants of the round table, and this is how the presentation of the book can be positioned, in which historical researchers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tver, Smolensk and the USA took part, agreed to continue an unbiased study of the facts of the Katyn and Mednovskaya tragedies. “We are only interested in the truth,” said Mikhail Kormushkin, publisher of the Russian translation of the American author's book.
A fundraiser has been announced for another project to study the controversial pages of the pre-war and military history of the USSR. In particular, the task is to conduct a historical reconstruction of the events in Katyn and Medny with the involvement of forensic experts from law enforcement agencies and, on the basis of this reconstruction, make a documentary film.
It is also proposed to install in the memorial complex in Medny, in Katyn and in Nilova Hermitage, where Polish prisoners of war were temporarily kept, information stands with facts that are alternative to the official version. So that until the final triumph of truth, the public consciousness is not dominated by the only and, in the opinion of the participants of the round table and the author of the book, a controversial point of view.
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Of course, there is no secret in Katyn - the Poles were shot by the Germans.
PS. It is noteworthy that the story about the presentation of this book was on the Zvezda TV channel (with the telling title "The work of Goebbels"
https://tvzvezda.ru/news/qhistory/conte ... p9LUD.html ), and in the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region
http://www.zsto.ru/index.php/press-tsen ... -perepisat called Furr's study factual and devoid of political overtones.
The author debunks widelythe fact exaggerated in the West about the alleged execution by the NKVD of the USSR of captured Polish officers in the Katyn forest. 6,300 Poles were massacred in 1940. The executions took place in Katyn (the largest burial, near Smolensk), the village of Pyatikhatki (near Kharkov, Ukraine) and the village of Mednoye (near Kalinin, now Tver). Based on this fact of Stalinist terror, propagandists of all stripes are now demonizing the Soviet Union, and even today's Russia. Modern Polish politicians are trying especially hard.
- It is unacceptable to arrange political dances on the bones of those who died during the period of repressions of the thirties and forties in the USSR. On the issue of the Katyn tragedy, this is a tragedy not only for Poland, but also for Russia. This should not be forgotten, it is necessary to put an end to it. And not to hang labels, but to draw the necessary lessons from our common history. It is gratifying that the study of the American historian is devoid of any political background. Just facts, - said Viktor Konstantinov, deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Tver region, head of the Tver branch of the Russian Military Historical Society.
To be honest, I don’t really believe that under Putin they will refuse to replicate the Goebbels version of Katyn, but after Putin, options are possible, especially since there is a court decision that the Poles were shot in 1941 and the work of historians on this topic, and relations with Poland, those striving for the freezing point favor this. Well, Furr's book in the long run can contribute to this. But first, of course, you need to read it in order to understand whether it is as good as it is touted.
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The promotion of Katyn was approved by Hitler: who actually killed the Poles?
March 5, 2020
Suddenly. At RIA Novosti, Goebbels' version of Katyn is being exposed with might and main, providing a platform for Vladislav Shved, who in the 2000s made a significant contribution to the analysis of the falsifications of the Katyn case, along with Ilyukhin, Strygin, Mukhin and others.
State media usually ignored this topic, adhering to "official apologies", but in light of the obvious deterioration in relations with Poland, the topic of Katyn and the guilt of the Nazis in the execution of the Poles again fell into the mainstream of state propaganda.
The promotion of Katyn was approved by Hitler: who actually killed the Poles?
The propaganda promotion of the so-called Katyn case was approved by Adolf Hitler himself, according to a publicist-political scientist, a real state adviser of the third class Vladislav Shved, author of the book "Katyn. Modern History of the Question", who studied those events for many years.
In 1943, near the small village of Katyn, 14 kilometers west of Smolensk, in the tract of Kozy Gory, mass graves of executed Polish prisoners of war were opened. The point in this tragic story has not been set so far. This year, on April 13, Poland intends to hold another anti-Russian campaign dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Katyn crime.
In an interview with RIA Novosti, Vladislav Shved cited a number of facts that, he claims, indicate that Katyn was the work of the Nazis, and not the Stalinist leadership of the NKVD. This version, in fact, is confirmed by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal.
The "Case" of Goebbels
It is known that Hitler flew to Nazi-occupied Smolensk on March 13, 1943. According to Shved, the Fuhrer met with the head of the propaganda department of the Wehrmacht, Colonel Hasso von Wedel, whose officers were already preparing materials on the Katyn case. His promotion was then taken under personal control by the Minister of Imperial Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.
“In the spring of 1943, the Nazis, who were defeated at Stalingrad, realized that the war with the USSR would be tense and long-term. It became dangerous to rely only on military power. They decided to use some kind of provocation that could split the anti-Hitler coalition. This is how Katyn arose as a symbol of the atrocities of the NKVD. The Nazis allegedly accidentally discovered the burial places of the murdered Polish officers," Shved notes.
The Nazi version of Katyn
On the same day, the main Nazi newspaper Völkische Beobachter ("People's Observer") came out with an editorial titled "GPU-Mord an 12,000 polnischen Offizieren" (GPU-Mord an 12,000 polnischen Offizieren).
"Further, the Nazis staged a propaganda show from the exhumation of Polish graves in Katyn - Kozy Gory. Numerous delegations from European countries were invited there to "certify" the atrocities of the Soviet GPU (in 1922-1923 - the State Political Administration under the NKVD of the RSFSR, since 1934 renamed the NKVD of the USSR. - Approx. ed.), "continues the political scientist.
According to him, the exhumation of the Katyn burials in March-June 1943 was carried out by employees of the leading German forensic expert Gerhard Buhtz, head of the forensic laboratory of the German Army Group Center and Standartenführer (colonel) of the SS.
“Recently, it turned out that at that time the Nazis were in close contact with representatives of the Polish government in exile. This was told in the book “RKS” (Intelligence Club of the Allies. - Approx. Ed.) Doctor of Historical Sciences Vladimir Lota, a retired KGB colonel of the USSR. He refers to the archival reports of Shandor Rado (Radó Sándor), one of the most effective residents of the Soviet military intelligence during World War II, "explains Shved.
In the book, Lota reports that “at the German insistence, the Polish embassy in Bern edited the text of its request to the International Red Cross together with the German embassy ...” “The embassy was given only three hours for this, since the Germans wanted the Polish request to arrive simultaneously with the German . Comments, as they say, are superfluous",
Nazi-Polish exhumation and identification
Officially, the exhumation and identification of the Katyn corpses took place from March 29 to June 7, 1943. However, according to witnesses, the Nazis worked in Katyn-Kozy Gory from February to August, they were actively assisted by specialists from the Technical Commission of the Polish Red Cross (TK PKK).
The results of the exhumation and identification are contained in the "Official Material on the Katyn Massacre" (Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn), published in 1943 in Berlin.
The document, according to Shved, reports that in March-June 1943, 4,143 corpses were exhumed from the Katyn burials, of which 2,815 (67.9 percent) were allegedly identified. According to the official list of identified Katyn victims, published by the Polish side in 1944 in Geneva, 2,636 corpses were identified out of 4,243 exhumed, or 62.1 percent.
“This discrepancy indicates that the Poles had to remove from their lists the names of 179 Polish officers exhumed and identified in Kozy Gory, since in reality they turned out to be alive. This is one of the indirect confirmations of the Nazi falsification of the identification of the remains of the Katyn victims,” Shved points out.
As for the results of Nazi identification, which are incredible for world practice, the political scientist recalled: the exhumation in 1988 in the Belarusian Kurapaty of the remains of victims of Stalinist repressions made it possible to identify only four (0.06 percent) of 6,500 corpses. Of the remains of the "enemies of the people" shot in Butovo near Moscow, no one has been identified, although some names are known.
Falsification
In 1945, all the "documentary evidence" of the responsibility of the NKVD for the Katyn massacre, collected by the Butz commission, was burned on orders from Berlin. This was reported in the book "Katyn" by Jozef Mackiewicz, a Polish journalist and the first researcher of the Katyn crime.
“This is a clear confirmation that the “documentation” of the materials was fake and had nothing to do with the Katyn execution by the NKVD,” Shved believes.
In the post-Soviet period, the Poles added dubious "facts" with the obvious connivance of the Soviet, and then the Russian side, and achieved international recognition of the Nazi version.
The collapse of the Nazi-Polish version
On behalf of the prosecutor of Krakow, Roman Martini, who opened a criminal case on the death of Polish officers in the fall of 1945, leading Polish forensic experts, professors Jan Olbrycht and Sergiusz Sengalevich, prepared a review of the Nazi "Official Material on the Massacre at Katyn".
This document was supposed to be presented to the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (IMT). "We believe that we have shown enough gaps, errors and inaccuracies to recognize the statements made by the Germans in the publication Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn that do not withstand scientific criticism, and thereby recognize this document as propaganda," the political scientist cites an excerpt from the Polish review .
Unfortunately, the unexpected happened. “On March 30, 1946, prosecutor Martini was killed. The Soviet side did not show interest in recalling Olbrykht and Sengalevich, as it considered it the main task to present testimonies to Nuremberg about the responsibility of the German Nazis for the Katyn massacre. Therefore, in 1946, the opinion of Polish professors was not heard at the MVT "Swede explains.
However, according to him, there are other indisputable evidence and evidence confirming the responsibility of the Nazis for the execution of Polish officers in Kozy Gory.
The devil is in the details
In the report of the aforementioned Butz, who led the exhumation and identification of the Katyn burials, it was reported that most of the exhumed corpses were dressed in Polish uniforms. “In addition to orders and other awards, personal belongings, documents, souvenirs, letters, notebooks, there were numerous items of military equipment on the bodies ... There were also distinctions for bravery on the uniforms of the dead,” Shvets cites Butz’s report.
This is irrefutable evidence that it was the Nazis who shot the victims, the political scientist emphasizes. Indeed, according to the "Regulations on prisoners of war", approved by the Decree of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of March 19, 1931, in the USSR they "were allowed to wear uniforms, but without distinctive marks assigned to their rank or position." It is known that in the NKVD the Regulations of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR were strictly implemented.
The Swede drew attention to the fact that from grave No. 1, filled with corpses in nine to twelve layers, Nazi exhumers were the first to extract the remains of Polish generals Mieczysław Smoravinsky and Bronisław Bokhaterewicz. “Meanwhile, based on the lists of instructions of the NKVD, which Katynovologists present as evidence of the unconditional guilt of Stalin’s law enforcement agencies, the remains of Smoravinsky and Bokhaterevich should have been in the eighth or ninth layer of those who were shot, if you count from above. Only one could know about the real location of the remains of Polish generals those who shot them. That is, the Nazis, "says the interlocutor of RIA Novosti.
And he quotes from a telegram from the British Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, Owen O'Malley, sent on May 15, 1943, to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "At the foot of the hillside is a mass grave in the shape of" L " (grave No. 1. - Ed.), which has been completely excavated. Its dimensions: 16x26x6 meters. The bodies of the dead are neatly laid out in rows from nine to 12 people, one on top of the other, with their heads in opposite directions ... "" To believe that the NKVD
officers descended into the ditch to a depth of three or four meters for neat laying in rows and a jack of the shot, this is from the realm of the impossible. There is a typical German thorough approach: to ensure the maximum filling of the ditch, "adds Shved.
next argument. Butz in his report mentioned "numerous bullets and shell casings" in the burial. “It is known that in 1994-1995, Polish experts during excavations in Katyn found 241 German cartridge cases, 79 of them with traces of such corrosion that it is impossible to read the markings. This is another Nazi trace,” the political scientist notes.
The fact is, he explains, that pistol cartridges Geco 7.65 D. (Gustav Genschow & Co.) with stainless brass sleeves were produced in Germany only until the end of 1940. In 1941, due to a shortage of non-ferrous metals, the Germans switched to copper-plated steel cases, and then pure steel, covered with a gray-green varnish. Copper-plated and varnished sleeves quickly rusted in the soil.
In addition, Polish two-zloty banknotes issued on March 1, 1940 were found in the Katyn Forest, as reported by Jozef Mackiewicz, mentioned above, after visiting the Katyn excavations in May 1943.
"In the Polish General Government, the pre-war two-zlotovkas were replaced with "Krakow" ones from May 8 to 20, 1940. The first stage of Polish officers from the Kozelsk camp of the NKVD left for Smolensk on April 3, 1940, the last - on May 10, 1940. That is, "Krakow" two-zlotovkas Polish prisoners of war in the Kozelsk camp of the NKVD, if they had been shot in April-May 1940, did not have,” Shved emphasizes.
Polish officers could only have these banknotes in the event of a Nazi execution in 1941.
Execution lists
According to Shved, today it has been reliably established that the Nazi exhumers in Katyn-Kozy Gory had lists of Polish officers sent by the Prisoner of War Administration of the NKVD of the USSR to the Kozelsky camp of the NKVD. The camp administration was supposed to transfer the Polish prisoners of war to the NKVD Directorate for the Smolensk region.
This was revealed in the archival correspondence between the Reich Propaganda Ministry and the German Red Cross (GKK), dated May 23, 1943, by Professor of Moscow State University, Doctor of Historical Sciences Vladimir Sakharov. "The Nazis seized the lists of Polish officers in the building of the UNKVD of the Smolensk region in July 1941," Shved clarifies.
Professor Sakharov also discovered another large-scale falsification. The Nazis claimed that they found 3,300 letters and postcards on the Katyn corpses and in the graves, thanks to which they allegedly achieved such an incredibly high percentage of victim identification.
Sakharov, analyzing the addresses of senders of letters and postcards from the Katyn burials, found out that most of the Polish cities and streets indicated in the addresses were already Germanized. “Meanwhile, it is known that the process of Germanization of the territories of Poland, captured by Germany in September 1939, took place with great difficulty. There is a clear discrepancy,” Shved points out.
The miscalculation of the Soviet leadership
The falsification of the "Katyn case" could have been put to an end long ago if the leadership of the USSR, and then Russia, had taken due and exhaustive measures for this, Vladislav Shved believes.
“But the conviction of the Soviet leaders that no one would dare to challenge the Soviet version of Katyn did not allow the truth to triumph properly. Nevertheless, the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal indicted Hermann Göring, Nazi number two, and Alfred Jodl, acting chief of the Katyn crime, for the Katyn crime. Wehrmacht High Command. These are documented facts," the political scientist concludes.
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Personally, I never doubted that the Nazis shot the Poles.
This was also confirmed by the Russian court at one time, when it issued the only existing decision on the topic of Katyn, which directly states that the Poles were shot not in the spring of 1940, but in the autumn of 1941. Since then, no judicial decision has been made to challenge this conclusion. But the slop of the Polish-Nazi propaganda myths is quite tenacious.
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