Inscription to be changed
NZPA-Reuter Warsaw Poland plans to change an inscription on a Warsaw monument accusing the Nazis of a World War II massacre of more than 4000 captive Polish officers, the Government said yesterday. The present inscription blames “Hitlerian fascism” for the massacre.
But six days ago the official press published a wartime Polish Red Cross report concluding that the Soviet Union killed the officers whose bodies were found in 1943 in eight mass graves at Katyn Forest near Smolensk.
Referring to an official
monument in Warsaw’s Powazki cemetery, the Government spokesman, Jerzy Urban, said, “I know there are plans to change the inscription on the monument and to change its location.” The words “NKVD 1940” are frequently scrawled on the present inscription, mirroring a popular belief that the Soviet secret police were responsible for the massacre.
The report was presented by Polish historians to Soviet colleagues on a joint team trying to clear up “blank spots” in the two countries’ turbulent relations.
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