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File:Katyn Massacre - Mass Graves.jpg

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English: Photo from 1943 exhumation of mass grave of polish officers killed by NKVD in Katyń Forest in 1940. Excavation of the largest grave (#1). Bodies of general Mieczysław Smorawiński and general Bogusław Bohaterowicz were found in this grave.
Polski: Zdjęcie z 1943 roku z ekshumacji ciał polskich oficerów zamordowanych przez NKWD w Katyniu w 1940. Odkopywanie największego grobu (nr. 1). W tym grobie znaleziono zwłoki generała Mieczysława Smorawińskiego i generała Bogusława Bohaterowicza.
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Source Andrzej Leszek Szcześniak (1989) Katyń: Tło historyczne, fakty, dokumenty, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa ALFA, pp. s. 106 ISBN 83-7001-295-5 Invalid ISBN
Author unknown, probably Polish Red Cross delegation

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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

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