Nemmersdorf massacre

When

21 Oct 1944

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

124

Coordinates

54.52° N, 22.07° E

Description

massacre perpetrated by Red Army soldiers in the late stages of World War II

1944 World War II incident

The Nemmersdorf massacre was a civilian massacre perpetrated by Red Army soldiers in the late stages of World War II. Nemmersdorf 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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