Katyn Forest
Sir,—l. Bembrose (July 28) correctly states that both the Nazis and Stalin’s Soviets were capable of the Katyn Forest massacre. Nationality and ideology aside, I see little difference between Katyn, and the Japanese pillage, slaughter and rape in Nanking, China, in 1937, the mostly British incendiary bombing of Dresden in 1945 (135,000 died in an enormous “firestorm”) and the American blanket-bombing and devastation of Indo-China in 1965-75. A similar combination of politicians and military chiefs conceived and ordered each atrocity. — Yours, etc., M. T. MOORE. July 28, 1986.
Sir, — To my mind there is no doubt about who was responsible for the Katyn Forest masacre. It was certainly not the Germans. If they had wanted to dispose of 15,000 Polish officers they would have used those alleged gas chambers and ovens. It would have been only a few day’s production and it would have left no evidence of them having ever existed. — Yours, etc. JOHN H. LENCH, Nelson. July 28, 1986.
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