What the records say
- When
- 22 Apr 1945
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 200
- Coordinates
- 51.19° N, 14.48° E
- Description
- Massacre of German POWs commited by the Red Army during the Second World War.
Niederkaina massacre
War crime committed by Red Army soldiers
The Niederkaina massacre was a war crime committed by Red Army soldiers on 22 April 1945, in the final days of World War II, in the village of Niederkaina in Lusatia. Approximately 200 German prisoners of war, members of the Volkssturm, were killed; nearly all were burned alive in a barn.
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