Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century
Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood
S2 • E10 Jun 3, 1996 30m
In April 1943, Berlin announced that the bodies of 3,000 Polish officers had been found murdered by the Soviets at Katyn Wood. Stalin indignantly denied the accusation, even though all documents on the bodies stopped in 1940 when the men had been in Soviet hands. Only recently did the full truth of who was responsible come out.