The Nemmersdorf Massacre was a massacre of civilians that occurred on October 21, 1944 in Nemmersdorf, East Germany. One of the first East German settlements occupied by Soviet troops, between 19 and 30 people were massacred after the occupation of the village.

    The Massacre of Nemmersdorf (Massaker von Nemmersdorf) was a massacre of civilians in Nemmersdorf, East Germany, on October 21, 1944. Opinions vary as to the number of victims and the circumstances of their deaths.Nemersdorf was one of the first settlements in East Germany to be occupied by Soviet troops. After the Soviet Red Army occupied the East German village, between 19 and 30 people were killed. The massacre centered on 13 local civilians who took refuge in a bunker from the fighting between Wehrmacht and Soviet troops and were shot to death. In addition, six other residents of Nemersdorf, as well as non-local residents, died during the occupation of Nemersdorf. The reasons for the deaths of the residents are still unknown.

    The Soviet Red Army established a bridgehead on the west bank of the Rominthe River on October 21, 1944. The Germans attempted to retake the bridgehead, but were repulsed by Soviet Red Army tanks and infantry. During the air raid, many Soviet soldiers took refuge in makeshift shelters. Fourteen local men and women were already hiding in the shelter. When Soviet officers arrived and ordered everyone to leave, the Soviets shot the German civilians at close range. During the night, the Soviet Red Army retreated across the river on October 23 and took up defensive positions along the Rominthe River. The Wehrmacht regained control of Nemersdorf and discovered the massacre.

   After the Soviet Red Army withdrew from Nemersdorf, the German Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda propagandized the massacre in the village as a cruel invasion of the advancing Soviet Army and mobilized the German national reserves. Following the massacre, photographs were taken of unidentified people who were shot and killed, and propaganda of systematic torture, rape, and murder was disseminated. The massacre remains unidentified to this day and is considered a war crime by Soviet soldiers.

   On October 10, 1944, the first Russian troops invaded East Prussia. It was the Russians who emerged as friendly liberators in Lithuania. Their anger and thirst for revenge in East Germany was boundless. Faced with the grisly fate of thousands of their fellow Germans in Nemersdorf, German residents walked endlessly across the winter plains or fled by boat from the pier in Kolberg in 1945.