Katyn massacre

When

Apr 1940 – May 1940

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

22

Coordinates

54.77° N, 31.79° E

Description

Soviet massacre of Polish military officers and intelligentsia in 1940

Soviet massacre of Polish military officers and intelligentsia in 1940

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Poles carried out by the Soviet Union between April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the NKVD prisons in Kalinin, Kharkiv and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by Nazi German forces in 1943.

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