La matanza de Katyn

For decades, the authorship of this ruthless mass murder was controversial: was it Stalin's secret police in the spring of 1940 or the German occupiers in the summer of 1941? Fifty years later, the Kremlin acknowledged one of the worst crimes in Soviet history. On the basis of the original documents, the German journalist and historian Thomas Urban reconstructs, on the 80th anniversary of the events, the crime and propaganda war of the great powers, which not only included lies and falsifications, but also the murder of witnesses uncomfortable. A necessary, moving and enlightening free about one of the most terrible and dramatic episodes of World War II.