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Zusatztext 'This study is the fullest investigation to date of this atrocity...It is based on considerable research in various archives and is written dispassionately and objectively and is thereby all the more moving.' - Contemporary Review Informationen zum Autor George Sanford is a reader in politics Bristol University and a leading academic specialist on Poland and Eastern Europe. He is the author of ten books, including most recently the Historical Dictionary of Poland (2003), Democratic Government in Poland (2002) and Poland: The Conquest of History (1999). Klappentext accounting of the mechanics of the transportation and execution of the victims. The truth about the massacre was suppressed both by the Soviet Union and by their post-war satellite regime in Poland. But the management of the issue by the American and British governments after 1943, examined in the second half of this book, also has major significance. The failure by the Western powers to question the Soviet cover-up stands as an embarrassing part of their wider policy of acceptance of Poland's takeover at the end of WWII. While the lingering effects of war continue to haunt Eastern Europe, this study is a vital contribution on the debate over how the memory of atrocities can be assuaged by justice for victims through truth-telling, apologies and reconciliation. Of interest to scholars and students of Eastern European and WWII history, this volume is a fascinating look into a dark chapter of mankind's bloodiest century. Zusammenfassung Examining the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and other camps in 1940 – one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War – this book sheds new light on what took place and how the memory of the massacres long affected, and continues to affect, Polish-Russian relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Preface Introduction Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Poland and Russia 2. The Sovietisation of East Poland 3. The Stalinist Terror and Prisoner of War System 4. The Indoctrination, Screening/Investigation and Selection 5. Course, Mechanisms and Technology of the Massacre 6. The Struggle for Historical Truth 7. Management and Control of the Truth about the 1940 Massacre: American-British Lies, Hypocrisy and Self-Delusion 8. Soviet and Polish Communist Control of the Truth about Katyn: The Conflict with National Memory 9. Closure of the 1940 Soviet Massacre Issue Bibliography Index...
