Abschwangen massacre

Abschwangen Massacre
LocationAbschwangen, East Prussia
Date29 August 1914
TargetGerman civilians in Prussia
Attack type
Massacre
Deaths65
Perpetrators Imperial Russian Army

Abschwangen (now Tishino, in Bagrationovsky District) was a small village near Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia some 30 km south of Königsberg, today Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia and the scene of a massacre of German civilians on 29 August 1914.