Millions of Poles were killed by the Nazis during World War II, and every night, candles burn in memorial along the streets of Warsaw. But the most shocking atrocity of allthe murder of at least 4,500 Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest near the Russian city of Smolensk in 1940is the one that Poles are forbidden to commemorate. Reason: the Soviets have long been suspected of doing the shooting.
The Russians have persistently claimed that the Germans were responsible. Last week, in accord with the British practice of making official records public after 30 years, a secret report from...
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