Files tell how U.S. knew atrocity Soviets’
Posted: September 16, 2012 at 3:55 a.m.
Franciszek Herzog, 81, holds a portrait of his father, who was killed in the Katyn massacre along with his uncle. Herzog has been frustrated by the U.S. government’s lack of openness about the killings.
The American prisoners of war sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area.
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