The liars have the floor
The “Gniezdova Tomb” excavations
“The libelous followers of Goebbels have been spreading blatant rumors for the past two or three days, claiming that Soviet authorities conducted mass executions of Polish officers in the area of Smolensk, which supposedly happened in the spring of 1940. The German fascist bandits will not stop at the most despicable of lies to spread their newest drivel, with which they try to cover up unspeakable crimes that they themselves committed, as has now become apparent.
The fascist German communiques on this topic leave no question as to the tragic fate of the former Polish P.O.W.s, who were in the area of to the west of Smoleńsk in 1941, working at construction sites, and were captured along with many local Soviet citizens by the fascist German persecutors in the summer of 1941, after Soviet forces had retreated from the area of Smolensk.
In 1944, the plaque at the entrance to the Katyń forest claims that “Nazi beasts executed P.O.W.s, soldiers and officers [here] in the autumn of 1941.
There can be no doubt that Goebbels' liars are now turning to libel and slander to cover up the bloody crimes of the Nazi thugs. In their half-baked nonsense about the numerous graves supposedly discovered by the Germans near Smolensk, the Nazi slanderers mention the old settlement of Gniezdova, but like the thugs that they are, they pass over the fact that there are archaeological excavations of the historical “Gniezdova tomb” near the village of Gniezdova. Hitler's black ops specialists have stooped to crude faking and substitution of facts, spreading slanderous tall-tales about supposed Soviet savagery in the spring of 1940, in order to avoid responsibility for the savage crimes committed by the Nazis [...]
Part of a Radio Moscow communique, aired on April 15th, 1943 and published in the Soviet Press on April 16th. Quote from “KATYŃ. Dokumenty zbrodni” (“KATYŃ. Documents of the crime”), v. 4, published by Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych, Warsaw 2006.
In the eyes of Western journalists
One needn't resort to the imagination to see the visit of a group of Western journalists invited to the exhumation spot in January 1944. The correspondents were filmed as the walk between the hundreds of corpses arranged in rows, and as they stand by the piles of human skulls, separated from the exhumed bodies for God knows what reason, and piled together like a mound of cabbage heads. Among the journalists were a few woman, including — as we know — Miss Kathlen Harriman, daughter of the US Ambassador to the USSR.
Western journalists during the exhumation, conducted Soviet authorities in January 1944.
“Several thousand Poles were murdered” — estimated Canadian “Toronto Star” editor Jerome Davies following his visit to Katyń. “The Germans falsely claimed that only Polish officers were killed. In reality, most of the exhumed victims are privates. I saw over seven hundred bodies exhumed by the Russian. I saw seven enormous pits, similar to the pits in Babi Yar in Kiev. The corpses in one of the graves were arranged like sardines in straight rows, in six layers...”
“The German unit assigned to killing the Poles was mysteriously and inexplicably named the Work Battalion Nr 537” Edmund Stevens reveals in an article published in the Boston ”Christian Science Monitor”. “This unit was housed in a large vacation house, formerly owned by the NKVD; the home was up on a hill, from which there was a view of the Dniepr, about 100 yards from the tragic spot [...] The curtain of mystery was lifted by the accounts of two girls who had worked at the home as maids for the Germans. One of them, Anna Alexeyevna, claims in our presence to have constantly heard the sound of gunfire. Once, when she was coming home from work, she saw trucks on the road with Polish P.O.W.s. She stopped and soon heard the familiar sound of gunfire. [...]
”It is highly improbable that these bodies, which are still in relatively good shape, were buried in the Katyń forest four years ago” explained to his readers Alexander Werth, correspondent for the BBC, “Sunday Times” and “The Daily Sketch”. “There would have been nothing but bones left after four years. The Professor [Prozorovski] claims that those people were killed two years before, maybe a little earlier, or maybe a little later. The Germans examined the corpses of the murdered Poles as well, but not for medical reasons, of course. Only those papers were left that were dated 1940 at the latest. But this procedure wasn't conducted carefully and completely. Some of the papers are dated 1941 ...”
Not mentioning the name of the woman-witness, Werth added that “in the mysterious house near the Katyń forest there lived 30 German murderers” who ”would always leave the house following the trucks going in that direction, and afterwards there would always be the sound of revolvers being fired, and after the shooting the soldiers would come back very excited, talk loudly and take hot baths ...”
Source: Brochure titled “The Truth about Katyń”, published in Moscow, 1944.:
