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Nemmersdorf (now Mayakovskoye in Russia) was a German village in East Prussia, whose name is considered to be a symbol of the war crimes of the Red Army. The village was one of the first German settlements to fall to the advancing Red Army. In August–October 1944 the Red Army killed 26 civilians
On the other hand, there are indications that the massacre was actually performed under the command of Goebbels, in an attempt to stir up the civil resistance before the advancing Red Army. Bernhard Fisch, see reference, in his book Nemmersdorf, October 1944. What had actually happened in East Prussia managed to find new eyewitnesses and analyzed both German and Russian archives to present a more realistic picture of the events.
Reference
Bernhard Fisch, Nemmersdorf, Oktober 1944. Was in Ostpreußen tatsächlich geschah. Berlin: 1997. ISBN 3-932180-26-7, 192 pp, price: 14,80 DM.