Cumbria's Museum of Military Life are set to host an evening of cultural history in Carlisle next week as part of a new Tuesday talks series.
Maksymilian Loth-Hill is a cultural historian of East-Central Europe working at Durham University.
His primary focus is on the history of modern Poland (particularly the communist period), and he has recently finished his PhD thesis which looks at the politics of culture and history in Stalinist-era Poland.
Max is currently working as a teaching fellow in Modern European History, teaching - among other courses - modules on Europe under Nazi occupation, and the Nazi dictatorship in Germany.
On June 11 at 6pm, he will give a talk in the museum at Carlisle Castle, exploring the mass murder of around 22,000 Polish military officers and prisoner of wars (POWs) by the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Max will explore a selection of individual stories before discussing the discovery and exhumation of the mass graves by the Germans in 1943.
Tickets cost £5 online and £6 on the night.
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