Chapter 8
Supplementary Materials
Watch
23rd August 1939: Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop (3 minutes)
Katyn Museum in Warsaw Poland (7 minutes)
Katyn Massacre (11 minutes)
*The Katyn Massacre (13 minutes)
*Katyn: WWII’s Forgotten Massacre (16 minutes)
British historian Roger Moorhouse on the impact of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its Secret Protocols (33 minutes)
*Katyn (2007) (122 minutes)
Read
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939: The Baltic Case by Izidors Vizulis (1990)
Night Never Ending by Eugenjusz Andrei Komorowski (1974)
Death in the Forest: The Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre by Janusz Zawodny (1980)
The Great Terror by Robert Conquest (1968)
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore (2004)
*Violence, adult situations, and disturbing content. For older students only. Consider gaining parental permission.
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