This section contains photos taken in 1943 by the Nazis, during their exhumations of the Polish dead from the Katyn forest sites where the NKVD had murdered them on orders from Stalin in 1940.
They are from "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn", Berlin 1943.
There are 58 small images here. Clicking on a photo will take you to a page with the enlargements from that section on it.
Front page
Katyn related sites and LINKS
The text of the order to shoot the Poles
A map of the Katyn massacre site
Katyn related books and videos
Articles about the Katyn Massacre on this site.
"Doing justice to the dead"
"Separate memories, separate sorrows"
"Lost Souls"
"The Soviet memory hole"
The Anglo-Polish agreement of 25 August 1939
A page which explains the photos used in this site
Katyn related photos which people have sent me
Information on the rebellion of Russian troops at Courtine in 1917
Early German/Soviet co-operation: the Treaty of Rapallo
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