Word: katyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fields. It also allows a sidelong glance at some of the larger tragic ironies of World War II. With remarkable feeling, Powell conveys the consternation of those concerned with Anglo-Soviet relations when chilling evidence comes in that the Russians have massacred 10,000 Polish officer-prisoners in the Katyn Forest...
...dramatist, Hochhuth is arid and windy, substituting rhetoric for dialogue and debate for conflict. The drama is brought in from offstage like an imported delicacy-dispatches about the sinking of the Scharnhorst, or the discovery of the mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, or telegrams from F.D.R. and Stalin...
...Hasse) was a tragic figure who authorized immoral acts in hopes of saving his nation. Among them was the murder of Sikorski, a stiff-necked patriot who infuriated Stalin first by demanding the postwar return of Polish territories annexed by Russia, then by calling for an investigation of the Katyn massacre of 4,253 Polish military prisoners. Fearful that Stalin was ready to break off relations with Britain, Churchill, alleges Hochhuth, authorized intelligence agents to arrange a fatal accident for a plane in which Sikorski was to fly from Cairo to London...