He stated that it was Hilbers who first told Butz and his men that in the Katyn forest a large number of bodies had been found. Allegedly, the Bolsheviks had shot Polish officers there ...
MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. The German military in January 1943 shot Polish soldiers and officers in the USSR’s Smolensk Region and then buried their bodies in the Katyn forest, according to ...
some of the bodies found were in civilian clothing with their hands tied behind their backs. Images of corpses, piled up in the cargo space of a van, could have come right out of the film "Katyn." ...