Katyn

...An incident in which a large number of Polish officers captured by the Soviet army were massacred in the early stages of World War II. Katyn is a forest on the banks of the Dnieper River near Smolensk in western Russia. In April 1943, German troops who invaded the Soviet Union announced that they had found the bodies of 4,321 murdered Polish officers in Katyn Forest, which led to a breakdown in relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government in exile, which had been growing increasingly tense over territorial issues.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…第2次大戦初期にソ連軍の捕虜となったポーランド人将校が大量に虐殺された事件。カティンKatynはロシア西部の，スモレンスク近郊のドニエプル河畔にある森。ソ連に侵入したドイツ軍は1943年4月カティンの森で4321名のポーランド人将校の虐殺死体を発見と発表，領土問題をめぐって緊張の度を高めていたソ連とポーランド亡命政府の関係を決裂に導いた。…

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