WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Prosecutors say they want to determine whether World War II Polish Prime Minister Wladyslaw Sikorski was assassinated or really died in an accident.
Sikorski, a general who served as Poland's prime minister in exile during the war, died in a plane crash on takeoff from Gibraltar in 1943 when the plane's controls jammed. British investigators determined it was an accident.
Polish prosecutors said, however, they will exhume Sikorski's body this month from a crypt in Krakow Cathetral, the BBC reported.
At the time he died, Sikorski had demanded an investigation into allegations surrounding the deaths of 20,000 Polish officers in the forests of Katyn in 1940. The Soviet Union, then a Polish ally, was suspected and conspiracy theorists allege British Prime Minister Winston Churchill may have ordered Sikorski's death to preserve relations with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
The BBC said, however, Polish prosecutors have said they are investigating a "communist crime."
