I am not aware of the actual identities of each individual victim at Katyn. But if the 200 doctors had all been SS officers, the soviets would have fucking said so.
A huge amount of the so-called "intelligentsia" were Polish military conscripts who had been working at a university or something prior. It gets cast as though the Soviets were raiding schools, but from what I have seen it's more like they are looking through the resumes of the people killed to find something else to call them.
I am not actually familiar with the history but for me (and I assume many others in this context) when I see "inteligentsia" I read "SS"
Edit: so that could be where this is coming from
I am not aware of the actual identities of each individual victim at Katyn. But if the 200 doctors had all been SS officers, the soviets would have fucking said so.
A huge amount of the so-called "intelligentsia" were Polish military conscripts who had been working at a university or something prior. It gets cast as though the Soviets were raiding schools, but from what I have seen it's more like they are looking through the resumes of the people killed to find something else to call them.