Metgethen massacre

Metgethen massacre
Metgethen massacre
Part of Eastern Front (World War II)
	The German photo with the original caption "Nahaufnahme von den beiden Frauen und den drei Kindern" (closeup of the two women and the three children). Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
Location	Metgethen, Königsberg, East Prussia
Date	Around January-February in 1945
Target	Mostly Germans consisting of women and children
Attack type	Mass murder by shooting and rape
Deaths	32
Perpetrators	Red Army
Motive	Aftermath of Battle of Königsberg

The Metgethen massacre (German: Massaker von Metgethen) was a massacre of German civilians by the Red Army in the Königsberg, East Prussia, suburb Metgethen, which is now Imeni Alexandra Kosmodemyanskogo in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, circa January–February 1945.