Murdered German civilians in Nemmersdorf, October 1944, German Federal Archive
Location
Nemmersdorf, East Prussia
Date
21 October 1944
Target
German civilians, French and Belgian POWs
Attack type
Massacre, wartime rape
Deaths
~74 German civilians, ~50 French and Belgian POWs
Perpetrators
2nd Guards Tank Corps
The Nemmersdorf massacre was a civilian massacre perpetrated by Red Army soldiers in the late stages of World War II. Nemmersdorf (present-day Mayakovskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast) was one of the first prewar ethnic German settlements to fall to the advancing Red Army during the war. On 21 October 1944, Soviet soldiers killed many German civilians as well as French and Belgian POWs.
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