Includes reports, evidence documents, investigation results, and other materials relating to the committee’s investigation on the Katyṅ Forest Massacre,1940 (Murder of the Polish officers and Polish intelligentsia).

The Ecole Nationale des Cadres was set up at the Chateau d'Uriage, in the Alps above Grenoble, to train an elite drawn from the young intelligentsia as part of a larger effort to transform the nation. In The Knight-Monks of Vichy France John Hellman describes the founding, operation, transformation, and demise of the school, details the institution's ideological and political struggles with other segments ...

The Ukrainian battalion Nachtigall was formed by Stepan Bandera (1909-1959), a very controversial figure in Ukrainian history. He was a Ukrainian nationalist who in June 1941 proclaimed independence for Ukraine. During 1941-44, he was presumably imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp for this declaration of independence, since it wasn't approved by the German command. Released in 1944 he continued ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Copyright Holder: Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie

German intertitles. Title on screen: Ozaphan 10/39 Monatsschau [Loosely, October 1939 monthly show]. von Brauchitsch speaks to workers in arms factory in Dusseldorf in August 1939. Tanks. Swastikas. War preparations in London in August 1939. Men load materials in boxes onto a vehicle, dig ditches (street traffic in BG), and move a large gun. Volksdeutsche [ethnic Germans] with suitcases, eating. German ...

Footage begins with testimony from witness Raya Kagan, who describes a meeting with Untersturmbannführer Maximilian Grabner, in which she was told that she was forbidden to talk about the office work she performed (registration of supposed causes of deaths among prisoners), on pain of death. She also provides an account of her contact with the women of the Aussenkommando and the female Slovakian intelligentsia, ...

Titles on screen: Ozaphan 10a/39 Monatschau [monthly show]; Krieg in Polen [War in Poland]. Scenes from the invasion of Poland, including cannons firing and German soldiers, shot from a distance, moving across a field. Title on screen: Die Fliegerbilder werden sofort Ausgewerten [the aerial photographs are immediately evaluated]. Soldiers develop and analyze aerial photos at a mobile lab in the field. ...

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

Kazimierz Jan Wilk was born in Nowy Targ, Poland, on February 8, 1916. His father was a district engineer and his mother was a high school teacher; all four of their children received university degrees. Kazimierz graduated from the Polytechnic in L'vov, Poland, in spring 1939, with a degree in civil engineering. After the German invasion in September 1939, Wilk was employed by the Technical Department ...

Franz Grassler was assistant to Heinz Auerswald, the Nazi commissioner of the Warsaw ghetto. Lanzmann tries to get him to talk about the ghetto, but he claims that he remembers very little.. Lanzmann asks about Adam Czerniakow and his suicide, typhus, the black market, the ghetto wall, filming in the ghetto, and more. Grassler conveniently remembers things when he thinks they might be documented in ...