https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravd ... holocaust/
The article is quite long. I will attempt to quote the vital bits. Unz points out that if not for the Holocaust, the Soviets' execution of 20,000+ Poles "might rank as one of the worst such atrocities in all of recorded history". He argues that if Katyn had been fully recognized by the Allied public, it might have altered the course of the war. Then his theory.
Obviously it's true that the WGU has been elevated to a status of greater importance than Katyn, and we all understand how that came to be. But is it supportable that the Soviets could have instigated it? Perhaps someone on the forum can shed some light on this theory.Astonishing coincidences involving momentous geopolitical events strike me as extremely suspicious. We have Germany launching its most important propaganda campaign of the war [revealing the Katyn Forest Massacre] on April 13th and then on April 19th the largest Jewish uprising [that of the Warsaw Ghetto] of that same conflict suddenly broke out. I find it very difficult to believe that there was no causal connection between these two important events.
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Therefore, the remaining possibility is the German propaganda campaign centered on murdered Polish officers somehow triggered the seemingly unrelated Ghetto uprising of oppressed Jews six days later, an uprising that was spearheaded by a left-wing Jewish group called ZOB. I think we may safely assume that Stalin’s Soviet agents had considerable influence within ZOB, and he might have urgently deployed all of that influence to provoke a Jewish uprising that would help deflect public attention away from the growing Katyn story, with the impact magnified by the hugely disproportionate Jewish role in Western media outlets.
Unz, with the same suspicion, then approaches Witold Pilecki's report, which Wikipedia calls "the first comprehensive record of a Holocaust death camp".
I'm not sure Unz is right on all the facts, but the timing of these events are admittedly suspicious. It's worth adding that Pilecki actually referenced Katyn in his report. He wrote, "As in Katyn, at first the bodies of the killed (gassed) were buried in large pits [...]" (see The Making of the Auschwitz Myth, p.161). Not only was this a direct reference, but it implied that the Germans were responsible for Katyn. Therefore it seems quite plausible that the source for this was not an average Pole, who ought to have wanted justice for Katyn, but someone who was already suggestible to if not involved in Soviet propaganda.And by an absolutely astonishing coincidence, Pilecki escaped from Auschwitz and first informed the world of the ongoing Holocaust on April 26, 1943, less than two weeks after the Germans launched their Katyn Massacre propaganda campaign.
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Perhaps this timing was purely coincidental. Perhaps Stalin was extraordinarily lucky in that the public disclosure that he had committed the worst wartime atrocity in modern European history was immediately followed by the public disclosure that his Nazi adversaries were currently committing a vastly greater wartime atrocity of their own. But such remarkable coincidences leave me very suspicious. The details of the Pilecki Report presented by Wikipedia provide not the slightest hint of any Soviet involvement, but I still strongly suspect that a hidden Soviet hand may have been responsible for those sudden Holocaust revelations.
