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A documentary film about the Katyn massacre: about 4,000 Polish officers that were killed on Stalin's command by the NKVD in Katyn forest, not far from Smolensk, Russia, at the start of 1940. The Polish soldiers were captured by the Russians when Germany overtook Poland in September 1939. When the mass graves were discovered by the German forces in April 1943, the exiled Polish Government demanded an investigation into who had carried out the murders. An American investigation by Congress discovered that the NKVD was responsible. As a result of Gorbochev's "Glasnost" policy, the Soviet Union released...

Director : Michael Kloft, Bengt Von Zur Muehlen

Production Year : 1993

Language : Hebrew

Evidence of Crime - Katyń 1940 - 2010

Evidence of Crime: Katyn 1940-2010 is a Polish documentary written and directed in 2008 by Paulina Maciejowska. In March 1940, on Stalin's orders, the Soviet government signed a secret decree, ordering the execution of Polish "nationalist anti-revolutionaries" held in camps and prisons. This was carried out by the secret police N.K.W.D. Some 22,000 army officers, teachers, priests, doctors and Polish intellectuals were murdered. The massacre took place in the Katyn Forest, in the Smolensk region, and the families of those murdered were exiled to remote places in Asia. The fate of those murdered was unknown...

Director : Paulina Maciejowska

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 44

Language : Polish