Tragedy in the Katyn Forest (1944)

Footage №104004, 1 footage, Duration: 0:03:31

Scene №1 Tragedy in the Katyn Forest

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Members of the Extraordinary Commission interrogate witnesses.

Witness Moskovskaya (synchronously) and former assistant to the burgomaster of Smolensk Bazilevsky (synchronously) answer questions.

Metropolitan Nikolai, A. N. Tolstoy, A. S. Gundorov, V. P. Potemkin, and foreign correspondents are present in the meeting room.

The dug up corpses lie in rows in the snow.

A mass grave of Polish prisoners of war.

A cross on the grave.

Members of the delegation of units of the 1st Polish Corps in the USSR lay wreaths on the mass grave and march in formation near the grave.

Father Franciszek Kubsh serves a memorial service for the Polish prisoners of war killed by the Nazis.

Calendar:

1944

Shooting locations:

Smolensk region

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