burdenok began to investigate. while hiding these burials , german bullets were found. in addition, letters that were written after the arrival of the germans. the commission came to the conclusion that the dead were prisoners who were not evacuated in time. retreat, they found themselves in territory occupied by the germans and were shot by the nazis. the katyn massacre appears in the indictment of the international tribunal in nuremberg. section three. a war crime sounds like this: in september 1941 in katyn. near smolensk , the nazis carried out mass murders of polish captured officers, well, in principle, this could be an end, but then the nineties come and on april 13 , 1990, the president of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, conveys to those who arrived in moscow, to the president of poland, wojciech jeruzelski , milestone lists. by the quality of the paper you can determine the time, place where it was written, who wrote it and where this paper was made. as a result, by the decision of the european court