1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
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1891- 1986
1896- 1957
Soviet Union
February 23, 1944
Averell Harriman sends the accounts of his daughter and the Third Secretary of the Embassy who accompanied foreign correspondents to Smolensk to witness the Soviet Katyn investigations.
May 17, 1945
This translated document is an eye witness account and summary of a visit Stefan Mossor made to the mass graves in Katyn while he was a German POW.
June 21, 1948
The U.S. Army investigates what happened in the Katyn Forest in 1940 using the accounts of locals, newspapers, intelligence, and diplomatic correspondence.
1976
A Soviet record, probably dated from 1976, that offers an official CPSU stance on the Katyn massacre. The memo also describes various post-war "provocations" by the United States and other Western nations to bring attention to the Katyn massacre and inflame Soviet-Polish relations.
October 30, 1954
This intelligence report is a summary and timeline of the events concerning the Katyn Forest Massacre from 1939-1946.