Katyn Page #2

Cracow, Nov. 6, 1 939

German Occupation Zone

Hello... hello.

Yes, Chancellor.

Hello...

Gentlemen,

We have been informed

that, at the university,

you start classes, seminars

and exams without our consent.

You don't seem to realize

the plight you're in.

This kind of conduct

is a hostile act

against Germany.

In fact the university was always

a major hotbed of scientific struggle

against Germany, the center

of anti-German propaganda.

The university is closed.

You all are under arrest.

You'll go to a labor camp

where you'll have enough time

to think over your behavior until now.

- Excuse me...

- Any discussion is useless.

I categorically protest

on behalf of the university.

Comments are forbidden.

Whoever will try to disobey

orders will be shot.

Chancellor, you go first.

November 1 939

Camp in Kozielsk, USSR.

Everybody fled:
police stations,

high command. I know only one word:

- treason.

- Easy to judge others

- when you didn't fight.

- You didn't give me any weapon.

The camp does not justify

a breach of rules and conduct.

- It's a fitting term: treason!

- Soviet propaganda, lieutenant!

- The truth is quite different.

- Look for it in Romania,

- where our C. -in-C. has fled.

- Who's guilty

that we were unprepared?

History will judge

the guilty of the disaster.

Rehearsed platitudes, those, I think

though I have fewer stars than you.

- I'm an engineer, I design planes.

- The uniform is an honor.

- The Polish uniform.

- Shove the honor. I'd rather fight!

Don't jump at each other's throat.

Here? Before the Soviets?

We still take part

in the war.

It's all over with us.

Try to find peace with this,

lieutenant.

November 1 939

Soviet Occupation Zone

The Soviet Red Army

is your only friend.

Any further resistance is

pointless.

The Soviet Red Army

is your only friend.

Only she will liberate

the Polish nation from the war.

So that you could

start living in peace.

I can't find it.

Silence the baby.

- Name?

- Anna.

Wife of a cavalry captain,

born in Cracow in 1 91 0,

daughter Nika.

This checks out. Everything's correct.

So, what is it, citizen?

I already applied twice for travel

documents to Poland...

the General-Gouverenment, that is.

To my family.

Mussolini envies us already.

That's what is in our files.

And you were refused twice.

So what now?

I've applied again.

Refused!

Next one!

I used to live in Cracow before

the war. My family lives there.

She's a citizen of the General-

Gouvernement. Can she return there?

No!

Let me return to Krakow, please.

You can return of course,

but you cannot leave from here.

It's clear in black and white that

your husband is held

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