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Location of Metgethen, showing the Königsberg defenses and the Soviet attack of 6–9 April 1945. During the Battle of Königsberg in 1945, Soviet forces attacking from the north of the Samland peninsula, reached the Vistula Lagoon to the west of Königsberg on January 30, taking Metgethen in the process, a village with a railway station.
Metgethen was incorporated into the city of Königsberg in 1939; [7] to the east of Metgethen was the quarter Moditten. During World War II, the architect Alfred Fiedler of Tilsit, an ally of Erich Koch, constructed a cement factory in Metgethen which used Ukrainian forced labor to make anti-air defense. [5]
The Battle of Königsberg, also known as the Königsberg offensive, was one of the last operations of the East Prussian offensive during World War II. In four days of urban warfare, Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front captured the city of Königsberg, present day Kaliningrad, Russia.
the Metgethen massacre: mass murder and rape of 32-3,000 (German claim) German citizens by Red Army soldiers; the Nemmersdorf massacre: mass murder and rape of ~74 German citizens (as well as ~50 French and Belgian POWs) by the Red Army's 2nd Guards Tank Corps; the Treuenbritzen massacre: mass murder of German citizens by Soviet soldiers
February: Metgethen massacre. 9 April: Battle of Königsberg ends; Soviets in power. [39] ... This page was last edited on 22 January 2025, at 09:14 (UTC).
List of mass executions and massacres in Yugoslavia during World War II; List of massacres in the Bosnian War; List of massacres in the Croatian War of Independence; List of massacres in the Czech Republic; List of massacres in the Dominican Republic; List of massacres in the Philippines; List of massacres in the Solomon Islands
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.
Part of German evacuation from Central and Eastern Europe during World War II East Prussia (red) was separated from Germany and Prussia proper (blue) by the Polish corridor in the inter-war era. The area, divided between the Soviet Union and Poland in 1945, is 340 km east of the present-day Polish–German border.