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Kraków, Poland

Katyn — Poland

Scene

The families of the murdered officers wait in Kraków through German and then Soviet occupation — forbidden for decades to acknowledge the truth of the Soviet massacre.

History

Kraków was the administrative centre of the General Government under Hans Frank. The families of Katyn victims lived under the double oppression of Nazism and then Stalinism. Poland's communist government enforced the Soviet lie about Katyn until 1990. Mentioning Soviet responsibility was illegal in the Polish People's Republic.

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