This is so convoluted by goebbels propaganda and the west’s eagerness to repeat nazi propaganda. Does anyone have any good sources on it? I don’t really trust goebbels or the liberals that repeat what he said.
This was awesome! Thank you! I read a few of them.
Also, it’s not as if the people killed were angels, either
https://youtu.be/gxYdGSIP0d0 Grover Furr helped to push against the current narrative of Katyn Warning Long Video
“Unfortunately, we have had to give up Katyn. The Bolsheviks undoubtedly will soon ‘find’ that we shot 12,000 Polish officers. That episode is one that is going to cause us quite a little trouble in the future. The Soviets are undoubtedly going to make it their business to discover as many mass-graves as possible and then blame it on us” - Joseph Goebbels, private diary
I think one of the more confusing parts here, is that it was actually the British spreading these lies, FDR didn’t believe it and joked about it with Stalin, and Stalin used Churchill’s belief that it happened to argue privately with FDR that Churchill and the British were nazi sympathizers and as soon as the war was over they would turn traitor and become even worse than the fascists and nazis.
Do you know where I can read that entry of his diary in full please?
sorry couldn’t find a non paywalled source but this is the book and I’m pretty sure the right page
https://archive.org/details/goebbelsdiaries100goeb/page/316/mode/2up
It was carried out by Germany, and the bodies were dumped on the Soviet side. The bodies had been shot by German ammunition
Apparently, they didn’t have to cross over into Soviet lines. A 2011 Ukrainian archaeological dig determined that they were from 1941, the year the Nazis took that area.
