title: A study of gunshot wounds associated with communist executions of the Cursed Soldiers: a medical and historical analysis of materials from the Department of Forensic Medicine in Kraków
abstract: Introduction: According to the document from 1946, the execution of a person sentenced to death by shooting was to consist of firing into the heart of the convict. Based on these guidelines, during forensic examination of the exhumed bone remains, several gunshot injuries to the torso (especially to the chest) should be expected. However, most of the bodies of the cursed soldiers analyzed in the Department of Forensic Medicine in Kraków contained bullet holes in the bones of the skull. Aim of th
journal: Problems of Forensic Sciences