Katyn

Documentary film dealing with the “Massacre in Katyn Forest” – Approximately 4,000 Polish officers, captured by the Soviets, were killed. The massacre was carried out in 1940 by the NKVD in Katyn Forest which is situated west of Smolensk. It was verified by the discovery of the bodies in a mass grave by the Germans in 1943. This caused accusations of guilt to be exchanged between the Soviets and the Germans. An investigation by US Congress in the 1950s revealed that the massacre was carried out by the secret Soviet police under instruction from the Soviet Government. Only in 1989, during the rule of Gorbachev, did the Soviet Union formally take responsibility for the massacre. Includes interviews, photographs and archival footage.