re: #157 Dark_Falcon

Katyn was just one execution place in the spring of 1940. The only place found by the Germans, which is why it gave the name to the whole crime complex. Around ~4300 people were buried there. But the whole operation involved murder of more than 21,000 former Polish citizens [Polish by citizenship, not necessarily ethnicity; there were Jews, Ukrainians, Belorussians and others among them]. This included not only POWs concentrated in three camps, but also more than 7000 “normal” prisoners, who were shot at the same time as POWs. Around half of these prisoners were shot in Ukraine, around half in Belorussia. We have a list of those shot in Ukraine, but not the list of those shot in Belorussia, which is why finding a list of names of the latter group is such an important task (for the purposes of memorialization, etc.). Now Lebedeva unearthed some names in the convoy documents. This is not in the news yet.