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- Title
KATYN: POLITICS OF THE DEAD POWS AT A DEAD END?
- Authors
TURAN, Gözde
- Abstract
The Katyn forest massacre, which refers to the murder of approximately 15,000 Polish military officers after they were taken as prisoners of war during the Second World War, both led to violent controversy for historians as to the identity of the true culprits and had inevitable consequences in politics. The real important question seems to be less whether the Soviet Government or Nazi Germany conducted the Katyn massacre than how it has been embedded in historical and political realities. This article attempts to move beyond the analyses of Katyn that have conventionally drawn on Realpolitik concerns of Germany and the Soviets as well as other relevant actors, and addresses how different actors have put the Katyn massacre to different political uses while changing, exploiting, manipulating and most importantly believing miscellaneous realities.
- Subjects
GERMANY; PRISONERS of war; MILITARY officers; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Uluslararasi Suçlar ve Tarih, 2019, Issue 20, p95
- ISSN
1306-9136
- Publication type
Article