German soldiers standing at the site of the Massacre

As with most stories of this nature they had rumours and the strongest was ..........."that the officers had been put in barges at Yeniseisk....... and that these barges were towed out to the Arctic Ocean and sunk".

In the memo in the file it noted that the revelations about the massacre presented a problem for the Polish Government.......... 'if they ignore the whole matter they will rightly be considered to be a puppet Government, in which case they might as well not exist, since they would lose all support in Poland. .....If on the other hand they protest against this Soviet action they will be accused of disrupting Allied unity and so would be equally inconvenient' ............a sword of Damocles' indeed.

The Polish people genuinely thought that the British and American Governments agreed with their views, even if their own Government did not.  And that the Russians were guilty of this crime, even if the Polish were at war with Germany.

Cries of a 'cover-up' were spoken as early as 1943 from the Dziennik Polski.............. 'We are trying not to talk of the careful silence of our Allies on this matter as if they already knew that they could annoy someone whom they do not want to touch'.  But political expediency prevailed and it went unanswered.

It could only be confirmed by the deafening silence emanating from the British, American and Russian Governments regarding the affair. The Polish Prime Minister S Mikolajczyk, was effectively sidelined by Winston Churchill in his dealings with Stalin.

What was pointed out to the Polish Prime Minister, was that  it would be in Poland's best interest regarding the boarder problem to keep Russia on their side, that the request the International Red Cross investigate the crime, be forgotten.