Dzieje badań zbrodni katyńskiej

The author has carried out a systematic review and evaluation of selective stages of historical research on Katyń genocide in the last 60 years. He has discussed all the most important texts concerning this issue published both in Poland and abroad basing them in a broad historical and political background. He has analysed largely the Soviet and the socalled people’s democratic countries, Polish People’s Republic’s including first of all, propaganda attempts to conceal the true perpetrators. He has stressed the crucial importance of opening Soviet archives for the Katyń genocide research. He has underlined that many documents essential to recreate the „crime technology” itself, the prisoners’-of-war indoctrination process still remains unavailable.