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Author |
: George Sanford |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2007-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134303007 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134303009 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940 by : George Sanford
Examining the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and other camps in 1940 – one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War – this book sheds new light on what took place and how the memory of the massacres long affected, and continues to affect, Polish-Russian relations.
Author |
: Thomas Urban |
Publisher |
: Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2022-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526775382 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526775387 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Katyn Massacre 1940 by : Thomas Urban
In the spring of 1940, Stalin‘s NKVD executed 22,000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other places. When Wehrmacht soldiers discovered some of the graves three years later, the Soviets succeeded in convincing US President Roosevelt of the German perpetration. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had no clear picture of the crime, and therefore made no public comments. Using thousands of recently released US documents, this book refutes the popular thesis that the Western Allies deliberately lied about the Katyn case in order not to endanger the alliance with Stalin. As well as consulting Polish and Russian documentation on this war crime, for the first time, the diaries of the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, who wrote a great deal about Katyn, have been examined. Completely new for research is the role that Hitler's opponents in the Wehrmacht played in solving the crime: at the Nuremberg trial they convinced the US delegation that the executors were not from the SS, but from the NKVD. Nevertheless, it took until 1990 for Kremlin chief Gorbachev to admit Soviet responsibility. Today in Putin's Russia, however, there is a tendency once more to keep quiet about the crime or even to blame the Germans.
Author |
: Eugenia Maresch |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2010-12-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780752462554 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0752462555 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Katyn 1940 by : Eugenia Maresch
The mass murder of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet NKVD at Katyn is one of the most shocking events of the Second World War and its political implications are still being felt today. Information surrounding Katyn came to light with Russian perestroika, which made it possible to disclose a key document indicating the circumstances of the massacre. The bitter dispute is ongoing between the Russian and Polish governments, to declassify the rest of the documents and concede to genocide perpetrated by the Soviets. British 'Most Secret' files reveal that Katyn was considered as a provocative incident, which might break political alliance with the Soviets. The 'suspension of judgement' policy of the British Government hid for more than half a century a deceitful diplomacy of Machiavellian proportions. Katyn 1940 draws on intelligence reports, previously unpublished documents, witness statements, memoranda and briefing papers of diplomats, MPs and civil servants of various echelons, who dealt with the Katyn massacre up to the present day to expose the true hypocrisy of the British and American attitude to the massacre. Many documents are unique to this book.
Author |
: Jane Rogoyska |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 502 |
Release |
: 2021-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786078933 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786078937 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Surviving Katyn by : Jane Rogoyska
WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE ‘A gripping reconstruction… utterly compelling reading.’ Adam Zamoyski ‘This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.’ Geoffrey Alderman, Times Higher Education The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake – the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators – whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost.
Author |
: Wojciech Materski |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 616 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300151855 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300151853 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Katyn by : Wojciech Materski
In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union carried out the mass executions of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work details the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up of the crime, and the subsequent revelations.
Author |
: Alexander Etkind |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 121 |
Release |
: 2013-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745662961 |
ISBN-13 |
: 074566296X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Remembering Katyn by : Alexander Etkind
Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout Russia, Ukraine and, most likely, Belarus. Today their ghosts haunt the cultural landscape of Eastern Europe. This book traces the legacy of Katyn through the interconnected memory cultures of seven countries: Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic States. It explores the meaning of Katyn as site and symbol, event and idea, fact and crypt. It shows how Katyn both incites nationalist sentiments in Eastern Europe and fosters an emerging cosmopolitan memory of Soviet terror. It also examines the strange impact of the 2010 plane crash that claimed the lives of Poland’s leaders en route to Katyn. Drawing on novels and films, debates and controversies, this book makes the case for a transnational study of cultural memory and navigates a contested past in a region that will define Europe’s future.
Author |
: Adam Daniel Rotfeld |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages |
: 707 |
Release |
: 2015-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822980957 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822980959 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis White Spots—Black Spots by : Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Poland and Russia have a long relationship that encompasses centuries of mutual antagonism, war, and conquest. The twentieth century has been particularly intense, including world wars, revolution, massacres, national independence, and decades of communist rule—for both countries. Since the collapse of communism, historians in both countries have struggled to come to grips with this difficult legacy. This pioneering study, prepared by the semi-official Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, is a comprehensive effort to document and fully disclose the major conflicts and interrelations between the two nations from 1918 to 2008, events that have often been avoided or presented with a strong political bias. This is the English translation of this major study, which has received acclaim for its Polish and Russian editions. The chapters offer parallel histories by prominent Polish and Russian scholars who recount each country's version of the event in question. Among the topics discussed are the 1920 Polish-Russian war, the origins of World War II and the notorious Hitler-Stalin pact, the infamously shrouded Katyn massacre, the communization of Poland, Cold War relations, the Solidarity movement and martial law, and the renewed relations of contemporary Poland and Russia.
Author |
: Allen Paul |
Publisher |
: Northern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages |
: 449 |
Release |
: 2010-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501757204 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501757202 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Katyn by : Allen Paul
Author |
: Douglas W. Jacobson |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 426 |
Release |
: 2011-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590135976 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590135970 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Katyn Order by : Douglas W. Jacobson
The German war machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the once-beautiful city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Uprising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything—just as he has. Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany's defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers and civilians. If they can find the Katyn Order before the Russians do, they just might change the fate of Poland.
Author |
: Philip Kerr |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 457 |
Release |
: 2013-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101621097 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101621095 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Man Without Breath by : Philip Kerr
Bernie Gunther enters a dangerous battleground when he investigates crimes on the Eastern Front at the height of World War 2 in this gripping historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Philip Kerr. Berlin, 1943. A month has passed since Stalingrad. Though Hitler insists Germany is winning the war, morale is low and commanders on the ground know better. Then Berlin learns of a Red massacre of Polish troops near Smolensk, Russia. In a rare instance of agreement, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels want irrefutable evidence of this Russian atrocity. And so Bernie Gunther is dispatched. In Smolensk, Bernie finds an enclave of Prussian aristocrats who look down at the wise-cracking, rough-edged Berlin bull. But Bernie doesn’t care about fitting in. He only wants to uncover the identity of a savage killer—before becoming a victim himself.