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Katyn

Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth

Allen Paul

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Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth

Allen Paul

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Twenty years ago, Allen Paul wrote the first post-communist account of one of the greatest but least-known tragedies of the twentieth century: Stalin's annihilation of Poland's officer corps and massive deportation of so-called "bourgeoisie elements" to Siberia. Today, these brutal events are symbolized by one word: Katyn, a crime that still bitterly divides Poles and Russians. Paul's richly updated account covers Russian attempts to recant their admission of guilt for the murders in Katyn Forest and includes recently translated documents from Russian military archives, eyewitness accounts of two perpetrators, and secret official minutes published here for the first time that confirm that U.S. government cover-up of the crime continued long after the war ended. Paul's masterful narrative recreates what daily life was like for three Polish families amid momentous events of World War II—from the treacherous Nazi-Soviet invasion in 1939 to a rigged election in 1947 that sealed Poland's doom. The patriarch of each family was among the Polish officers personally ordered by Stalin to be shot. One of the families suffered daily repression under the German General Government. Like thousands of other Poles, two of the families were deported to Siberia, where they nearly died from forced labor, starvation, and neglect. Through painstaking research, the author reconstructs the lives of these families including such stories as a miraculous escape on the last transport of Poles leaving Russia and a mother's daring ski trek over the Carpathian Mountains to rescue a daughter she had not seen in six years. At the heart of the drama is the Poles' uncommon belief in "victory in defeat"—that their struggles made them strong and that freedom and independence, inevitably, would be regained.

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Index
Ahrens, Friedrich, 211, 335
Air Challenge, 9
Alma-Ata, 198–99
Altai Mountains, 196
Anders, Władysław, 61, 128, 171, 173–78, 180–82, 186–89, 215, 219, 245, 255, 260, 286, 291, 301, 310, 331, 336, 343, 346, 352, 358
Angerman, Karol, 357
Anglo-Polish Mutual Assistance Pact, 8, 15, 30, 104
Anscombe, Fred, 266
Anti-Comintern Pact, 15
Antigas Institute, 72
Armia Krajowa. See Home Army
Associated Press, 231, 261–62, 411
Atlantic Charter, 171, 289
Auschwitz, 87, 115, 191, 209, 354
Bakoń, Juliusz, 74, 240–41
Baku oil fields, 78, 105
Banach, Stefan, 101
Barbarossa, Operation. See Germany
Barbarossa, Frederick, 18, 21
Beck, Józef, 7–9, 14–15, 38, 75–76, 104, 246
Beck, Oscar, 281
Beck, Werner, 277–82, 304–05, 311, 351
Belarus (see also Byelorussia), 346, 362–63
Belgium, 25
Berchtesgaden, 21
Beria, Lavrenty, 114, 144, 264
Berlin Diary (Shirer), 16
Berling, Zygmunt, 125–26, 144–45, 178, 206, 264–65, 289, 346
Biddle, Drexel, 229
Bierut, Bolesław, 319–21, 332
Bissell, Clayton, 314–16, 338
blitzkrieg of Poland. See Case White
Boehm, Hermann, 21
Bohaterewicz, Bronisław, 215
Bohusz-Szyszko, Zygmunt, 184
Bolesławicz, Iwa, 13, 301
Bolesławicz, Marian, 13, 85, 301
Bormann, Martin, 21
Bór-Komorowski, Tadeusz, 68, 294, 340
Brandenburg Death March, 356
Breslau, 212, 277, 279–80, 282
Brest Litovsk, 34, 38, 57, 82
Britain (see also Churchill, Winston), 8, 31, 53, 165, 229, 231, 250, 252, 268, 289–91, 305–06, 316, 335
Anglo-Polish Mutual Assistance Pact, 8, 15, 30, 104
Battle of Britain, 143, 162, 166, 173
discovery of Katyń graves, reaction to, 220, 222, 227–30
O’Malley memorandum on Katyń, 305–10, 318, 334, 338, 343
Polish pilots in RAF, 143, 166
in Polish-Soviet Agreement, 166, 170
and Sikorski’s death, 243, 242–43
Soviet Union, alliance with, 165–66
at Tehran Conference, 249–54
British Broadcasting Corporation, 261
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 337
Budyonny, Semyon, 56
Buhtz, Gerhard, 212. 217, 234, 236, 274, 275, 277
Burdenko, N. N., 257, 261, 263–64, 335
Butyrki prison, 301
Buzek, Jerzy, 353
Buzuluk, 173–79, 181, 186, 195, 254, 255
Byelorussia(ns), 35, 53, 55, 59, 64, 65, 67, 70, 82, 92, 93, 164, 167–68, 172, 202, 215, 227, 250, 253, 322, 3351, 362
Bytom, 323–24, 327
Cadogan, Alexander, 306, 307
Camps for prisoners. See internment camps
Carpathian Mountains, 6, 25, 27, 33, 42, 57, 92
Case White, 20–23, 30–38
casualties in, 36, 37
planning of, 20–23
Cassidy, Henry C., 231, 262, 274
Cazalet Victor A., 242
Chamberlain, Neville, 7, 8, 18–19
Chełm Lubelski, 11
Christianity, 45, 58
Churchill, Winston, 52, 59, 166, 168, 171, 181, 183, 220, 224–26, 229–30, 232, 243–44, 247, 250–54, 265, 287, 289–91, 293, 296–97, 305, 307, 309–10, 316, 318, 320, 331, 339, 342
Ciano, Galeazzo, 18–20, 30
Cichy, Władek, 74, 76, 104–05, 107, 124, 126, 142–44,...

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