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The Assassination of the Polish President in 1943

The Polish President Władysław Sikorski died under suspicious circumstances in 1943 while flying out of the British fortress of Gibraltar during World War Two.

A significant number of Poles escaped to the West after the fall of Poland in 1939 and became part of the Allied war effort.

In 1943, the Germans discovered the remains of thousands of Polish soldiers murdered by the Soviets after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in 1939. The Germans released their findings and invited representatives of neutral countries to examine the mass graves. (Something that was never done with Auschwitz, etc.)

The Polish president in exile asked for the Red Cross to examine the mass graves at Katyn over the objections of the British and the Soviets.

When Sikorski refused to drop the matter, relations quickly worsened between the Poles and the British.

Among the more interesting details...

• The plane crashed only sixteen seconds after taking off.

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• The pilot survived the crash with only a broken ankle.

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• The pilot claimed that the aircraft controls stopped working.

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• The plane had been left unguarded with Soviet Ambassador Maisky's plane parked next to it.[/*:m:2fh3qcrc][/list:u:2fh3qcrc]

There's virtually no doubt that President Sikorski was assassinated to prevent further controversy over the Katyn massacre and to keep Polish forces in the West fighting the Germans. Polish air force pilots had already played a role in the Battle of Britain in 1940. Polish ground forces took Monte Casino in Italy in 1944 and Polish paratroopers took part in Operation Market Garden (the "Bridge too Far" battle) at Arnhem in 1944.

An interesting additional side note is that President Sikorski might have questioned the Soviet claims that the Germans committed a mass murder of Jews during World War Two. If Sikorski asked for information from the Red Cross, which had been allowed to travel freely inside Germany during World War Two, there would have been considerable evidence introduced that the so-called extermination of six million Jews, the Holocaust was nothing more than a fraud fabricated by the Communists to draw attention away from real war crimes that the Soviets had committed and to give the Jews of the world a perpetual "victim status" to silence any criticism of their unethical and even criminal activities in the past, present or future.

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