Professor, it is not easy to persuade your reflection on the American massacre in the 65th anniversary of the crime. And yet you are not committed to the death of the Katyn massacre in the minds of the West, primarily the United States. The Lord's thesis of 1948 on the responsibility for the massacre of Polish officers four years later led to the adoption by Congress of the report the famous Madden, and your book "Death in the Forest" to survive until the translations into 14 languages. Addressing this issue has brought fierce attempt to eliminate you from the circuit, including three attacks on your life. Also, the involvement of many Americans who have tried to avoid forgetting this terrible crime, did not get them to health. What do you feel when the Third Republic with high honors awards for revealing the crimes of 48 Poles, Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians, and not an american?
Please do not expect any comment from me. Someone else will think that the appeal to ... History is patient and fair judge. She will evaluate.
This is a very real issue. In a large extent determined by the foreign policy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the Katyn massacre, which ran in 1943-1945. Practically since the discovery of the crime to his death.
Indeed, the diplomatic documents available on this distinguished naiveté zdawkowość or even lie by silence and concealment. So I had to rely on witnesses, direct observers or participants in the "Katyn affair". I conducted direct interviews with the professor. George Kennan - the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Moscow in the years 1944-1946, Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, General Wladyslaw Anders, commander of the Polish Army in the Soviet Union, Jozef Czapski, who was looking for Polish prisoners of war there, the three ambassadors, eight generals, a colonel U.S. Army, John H. Van Vliet - witness the exhumation of German at Katyn, as well as one of the secretaries of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. This allowed the construction of a coherent image of Roosevelt's policy towards the Katyn.
Allied policy depend only on three people: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. All agreements and obligations arising therefrom, as well as differences of opinion were determined on their personal meetings. Therefore, the pressure was on them - and it is poorly stated - huge. Atlantic Charter, Tehran, Yalta - these are some examples of this pressure. Distancing themselves from Roosevelt to justify, it must be said that in 1943, when the Germans found the graves in Katyn, his situation was very difficult. It was connected with the situation on the fronts of the war.
U.S. Air Force conducted the first raid on Germany. Allied intelligence has discovered that the Germans in three independent research centers are working on an atomic bomb. Iraq declared war on Germany. Enduring battle for Kaserin Pass in North Africa. In Washington, the conference began on Allied convoys. There were also conferences in Bermuda, and Trento. Army of von Paulus surrendered at Stalingrad. The Red Army won the Kursk, and four months later, four million German and Soviet soldiers fought in the Kursk in the largest tank battle of World War II. There were internal problems with the supply of raw materials. In addition, the U.S. president was under pressure from the 38 nations seeking military aid and she was given. It lasted for Lend-Lease program, under which the Soviet Union handed over 7 million pairs of shoes; England - 50 destroyers, the underground Polish State - $ 10 million. Etc.
In Nawal these issues and pressure on the president are discovered by the Germans near Smolensk graves of Polish officers.
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