Katyň 1943. Protektorátní propaganda, zákulisí a osudy českých svědků
Katyn 1943_Protectorate propaganda, behind the scenes and the fate of Czech witnesses

Summary/Abstract: The liquidation of Poland’s national elite in the uniforms of the Polish Army is a story with many twists and turns, both in the actual disclosure of this appalling crime and in the context of international politics at the time, as well as during the subsequent Cold War era. Publicising the discovery of mass graves in April 1943 could not have been done without the participation of certain personalities from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia or without a mass propaganda campaign in the Protectorate’s press and radio broadcasts. Thanks to some partial studies, the fate of the pathologist Professor František Hájek and the writer František Kožík, who were confronted directly with the situation in Katyn Forest, is relatively well known. Both these witnesses to the exhumations in the forest were still forced to explain their presence there long after the war, and their “transgression” stayed with them till the end of their lives.

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