Her brother the Duke of Gloucester who led her was so shocked at seeing her in such a situation that he looked aspaleasdeath and as if he was ready to faint away.
Yes, the 22, 000 Polish officers (including hundreds of Polish Jews as well as Russian Orthodox, Protestants and Muslim Tatars in Polish uniform) killed in the forest pale against other death counts from the Holocaust to the tens of millions of Soviet citizens who perished under Stalin.