Katyn Forest
Sir,—Did the Nazi S.S. death squads ever need a “plausible motive” for their daily routine work of killing, murder, and slaughter of civilians — old men, women and children — of the occupied territories? Indeed, they did not, and the Polish officers were, after all, the nationals of a conquered, occupied enemy country, whose people were being killed by the Nazis even as they were blaming the Soviets for the Katyn Forest massacre. D.. P. K. Rennick’s outrageous suggestion (July 16) that it was the Polish officers, as "the bourgeoisie, who were most likely to draw in Poland behind Germany if hostilities became prolonged,” not only dishonours the Polish officers, but is a gross, gratuitously insulting slur on the Polish people. This is typical of the tortuously devious fabrications imposed on those who so desperately strive to exonerate Nazi Germany of the Katyn Forest massacre and blame it on the Soviets. I rely on “The Press” reports so heavily because in 1943 they recorded history. — Yours, etc., • M. CREEL. July 16, 1986.
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