It’s difficult to investigate because the site was closed by Polish authorities just as the evidence started pointing the other way, and most people who went to investigate basically ended up saying “the Soviets totally did it guys”. Let’s be honest, the evidence to show it wasn’t a Soviet massacre is circumstantial, but there’s enough of it to start pointing the finger at the Nazis. There’s a few smoking guns, it’s all in the page
I mean read the references. 98.67% of the bullets are german from 1941 (year of the massacre), 2 bullets are soviet bullets of 1930s type.
The killed were arranged in the same way as with other nazi massacres (how would NKVD know how nazis arranged the dead?), the killed included many children (soviets almost never killed children) and were likely jewish…
It is clearly a nazi massacre covered up to be soviet made.
I feel like even a coverup would have taken more effort, such a low proportion of soviet bullets to me says that they were likely just doing a regular massacre and a couple guys were using soviet weapons, presumably to replace lost or broken ones
Because it wasn’t designed to be blamed on the Soviets. The Germans just repurposed the massacre when it was obvious they were about to lose that region of Poland, so they could blame the Soviets and drive war propaganda.
It wasn’t a bad coverup because there was no coverup, it was just a Nazi massacre that just so happened to be dug up and repurposed by Goebbels.
Ok. So I’m 100% sure that the people in Volodymyr-Volyns’kiy were killed in 1941, the Ukranian report states that. Furthermore a Polish police badge bearing the numbers “1099” was found in (and this is important because another, 1441, was found ~5m away from it) the grave. 1099 seemingly belongs to Ludwik Małowiejski, who, based on the transfer lists, was presumed dead in Tver/Kalinin and so buried Mednoe.
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We have some evidence here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
It’s difficult to investigate because the site was closed by Polish authorities just as the evidence started pointing the other way, and most people who went to investigate basically ended up saying “the Soviets totally did it guys”. Let’s be honest, the evidence to show it wasn’t a Soviet massacre is circumstantial, but there’s enough of it to start pointing the finger at the Nazis. There’s a few smoking guns, it’s all in the page
Ughhh… Why does history have to be so difficult. I looked into things a little, and now I’m just even more confused.
I mean read the references. 98.67% of the bullets are german from 1941 (year of the massacre), 2 bullets are soviet bullets of 1930s type.
The killed were arranged in the same way as with other nazi massacres (how would NKVD know how nazis arranged the dead?), the killed included many children (soviets almost never killed children) and were likely jewish…
It is clearly a nazi massacre covered up to be soviet made.
I feel like even a coverup would have taken more effort, such a low proportion of soviet bullets to me says that they were likely just doing a regular massacre and a couple guys were using soviet weapons, presumably to replace lost or broken ones
Because it wasn’t designed to be blamed on the Soviets. The Germans just repurposed the massacre when it was obvious they were about to lose that region of Poland, so they could blame the Soviets and drive war propaganda.
It wasn’t a bad coverup because there was no coverup, it was just a Nazi massacre that just so happened to be dug up and repurposed by Goebbels.
Ok. So I’m 100% sure that the people in Volodymyr-Volyns’kiy were killed in 1941, the Ukranian report states that. Furthermore a Polish police badge bearing the numbers “1099” was found in (and this is important because another, 1441, was found ~5m away from it) the grave. 1099 seemingly belongs to Ludwik Małowiejski, who, based on the transfer lists, was presumed dead in Tver/Kalinin and so buried Mednoe.