Joseph Goebbels attempted to use this event, the brainchild of Lavrenty Beria, to drive a wedge between the Soviets and other Allied forces, although Stalin's government blamed it on the Nazis.
In the film Enigma, there is suspicion that a cryptographer named Puck will defect because of this event. This event's national memorial in the United States is on Aliceanna Street in Baltimore. Ron Jeffery tried to distribute information on it to the British, but believes he was foiled by Kim Philby. Arno Diere confessed to taking part in this event, although he eventually recanted, and prosecutor Roman Rudenko was unable to make charges related to it stick at Nuremberg. This is the focus of a namesake 2007 film by Andrzej Wajda. Joseph Goebbels attempted to use this event, the brainchild of Lavrenty Beria, to drive a wedge between the Soviets and other Allied forces, although Stalin's government blamed it on the Nazis. For 10 points, name this 1940 massacre of Poles by the NKVD carried out in the namesake Russian forest.
In the film Enigma, there is suspicion that a cryptographer named Puck will defect because of this event.
Katyn Massacre