MASSACRE OF POLES
THE KATYN HORROR GERMAN GUILT ESTABLISHED (Rec. noon.) RUGBY, Jan. 26. The Inquiry Commission into the Katyn murders set up by the Soviet Government has now reported. According to the findings of the commission, about 11,000 Polish prisoners of war were deft at . Katyn, near Smolensk, when the Russians retreated. Evidence taken since the liberation of Smolensk shows that the Germans in the autumn of 1941 massacred these prisoners, faked documents, and placed these in their pockets to give thn impression that the Russians murdered them. The Germans forced 500 Russian prisoners to exhume the bodies, and afterwards killed all these Russians except one,, who escaped. The German Government published the results of the exhumation, with the which fulfilled their hopes, of causing discord between the Russians and the Poles. It is estimated that altogether 135,000 persons were killed in the Smolensk area during the German occupation.
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Evening Star, Issue 25084, 27 January 1944, Page 5
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