| Nemmersdorf Massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of Eastern Front (World War II) | |
,_ermordete_Deutsche.jpg) 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.