On the thirteenth of April, 1943, the Nazi government reported that a mass grave of Polish officers had been found in the Katyn forest near Smolensk in present-day Russia. Five days before the massacre site was discovered, the SS, the Nazi organisation tasked with the Final Solution of the Jewish Question (the murder of the European Jews), closed the Chelmno extermination camp and eliminated all traces of the murders committed there.
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