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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Katyn massacre, Nuremberg Trials, Andrzej Wajda, W adys aw Sikorski, Black January, Polish government-in-exile, Einsatzkommando, 1956 Georgian demonstrations, Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, Katy, Fantana Alb massacre, Lviv pogroms, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Bykivnia, Jozef Czapski, Georgian emigration in Poland, Stanis aw Swianiewicz, Jerzy Wo kowicki, Vinnytsia massacre, New Martyr, Zdzis aw Peszkowski, Kurapaty, Mass graves in the Soviet Union, Tatarka common graves, Allen Paul, Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, Steven Fischer, Kozelsk, Novocherkassk massacre, Litene, Roman wi tkiewicz, Sandarmokh, Eduard Miloslavi, Khaibakh massacre, Sir Owen St. Clair O'Malley, Josef Olechowski, Douglas Lloyd Savory, R zeni Massacre, Kazimierz God owski, Mednoye, Piatykhatky, Kharkiv Oblast, Dem'ianiv Laz, Katy Museum, Warsaw. Excerpt: The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: , 'Katy crime'; Russian: ), was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD in April-May 1940. It was based on Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest being Polish doctors, professors, lawmakers, police officers, and other public servants arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests." Since Poland's conscription system...
