David Thompson wrote:Panzermahn -- You wrote:
Has the family of the German POWs hanged after being falsely accused of Katyn murder . . .
Please read the thread more carefully. So far there's nothing to show that anyone was hanged after being falsely accused of the Katyn murders. The whole point of the thread is to get such information, if any exists.
David you maybe right, but numerous articles do refer to people being hung after falsely accused of the Katyn massacre IMHO...here are a few sources. I will try and seek the IMT transcripts of these cases as well and have a look at if evidence might have been presented as false as I posted earlier showing Soviet response to Katyn as being tainted and false also of Katyn at IMT trials.
What makes Nikitchenko's role at Nürnberg more sinister is that in November 1945, the IMT condemned to death and hanged seven officers of the German Army: K.H. Strueffling, H. Remlinger, E. Böhom, E. Sommerfeld, H. Jannike, E. Skotki and E. Geherer for having perpetrated the Katyn Massacre. A further three German soldiers received 20 years in a Soviet Gulag and were never to be seen again. In light of the 1989 Soviet admission we know that none of these men were guilty of the Katyn Massacre, but Nikitchenko and the chief Soviet prosecutor, Roman A. Rudenko, had the power and the wit to bluff an international court and by 'legal murder' sought to paint over the remaining vestiges of Soviet complicity in the crime against Polish humanity.
http://www.catholica.com.au/andrewstake ... 110207.php
Nuremberg Trials
In November 1945, seven officers of the German Wehrmacht, K.H. Strueffling, H. Remlinger, E. Böhom, E. Sommerfeld, H. Jannike, E. Skotki and E. Geherer were tried by a Soviet court. They were falsely charged and condemned to death for their role in the Katyn massacre and were subsequently hanged. Three more were tried on the same charges; E.P. Vogel, F. Wiese, A. Diere. They received sentences of 20 years of hard labor, were turned over to the Soviets and never heard from again
http://en.allexperts.com/e/k/ka/katyn_massacre.htm#hd4
In November 1945 seven officers of the German Wehrmacht, K.H. Strueffling, H. Remlinger, E. Böhom, E. Sommerfeld, H. Jannike, E. Skotki, and E. Geherer were tried by a Soviet court. They were falsely charged and condemned to death for their role in the Katyn massacre and were subsequently hanged. Three more were tried on the same charges; E.P. Vogel, F. Wiese, and A. Diere. They received sentences of 20 years of hard labor, were turned over to the Soviets, and were never heard from again.
source from Famira, H., Germans Hanged for Katyn Retrieved June 8, 2007; Lüftl, Walter, The Katyn-Lie: Truth Will Always Emerge—When the Liars are Removed from Power
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ent ... te_note-40
K.H. Strueffling, H. Remlinger, E. Böhom, E. Sommerfeld, H. Jannike, E. Skotki and E. Geherer were German Officers hanged after the Nurmberg Trials for the massacre of Polish Officers at Katyn; a crime which the USSR then knew, and is apparent to all was conducted by the NKVD under orders from Stalin.
These 7 officers were executed, a further 3 were handed over to the USSR and 'disappeared'. Perhaps this shows the futility of such War Crimes Trials and the ones in Rwanda or The Hague should be abandoned; where international politics is involved evidence is often manufactured. Is the International Criminal Court really going to avoid political contamination of evidence ?
from a blog but referencing these deaths or executions
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles ... 00147.html
, but was...received sentences of 20 years of hard labor, were turned over to the Russians and never heard of again. i.e. by his native country Germany. 
as you say Nothing new there and agreed totally 
