Author: N. Burdenko

Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (born June 3, 1876, Kamenka, Russia; died Nov. 11, 1946) was a Russian and Soviet surgeon. He became Surgeon-General of the Red Army. In that function, he headed several commissions investigating alleged German war crimes, among them the Soviet massacre at Katyn. Burdenko's commission blamed this Soviet war crime on the Germans.

Katyn

By N. Burdenko, Aleksej Tolstoi, Nikolai Mythropolitos ∙ January 24, 1944

Translator's note: The following is is a typical example of Nuremberg “evidence”. The “testimony” consists of “written statements” said to have been signed by “eyewitnesses”, but which are simply “quoted” in a “report” written by the Stalinists and read aloud (in excerpt form) by the Soviet prosecutor. The “statements” are not attached to the report,…

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