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	'''Gumbinnen''' was a large town and county on the river Pissa, and in the government district of the same name in [[East Prussia]] made infamous by the appalling atrocities against civilians here, "inconceivable and repulsive to the European mind", carried out by the [[Soviet Union]]'s army on 20 October, 1944, during [[World War Two]].<ref>Schieder, Professor Theodor, editor, ''The Expulsion of the German Population from the Territories East of the Oder-Neisse Line'', Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims, [[Bonn]], 1954, vol.1, pps: 12 & 49.</ref> In February/March 1944 the county itself had 717,000 inhabitants.<ref>''Statistische Berichte'', No.viii/19/1, p.24.</ref>		'''Gumbinnen''' was a large town and county on the river Pissa, and in the government district of the same name in [[East Prussia]] made infamous by the appalling atrocities against civilians here, "inconceivable and repulsive to the European mind", carried out by the [[Soviet Union]]'s army on 20 October, 1944, during [[World War Two]].<ref>Schieder, Professor Theodor, editor, ''The Expulsion of the German Population from the Territories East of the Oder-Neisse Line'', Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims, [[Bonn]], 1954, vol.1, pps: 12 & 49.</ref> In February/March 1944 the county itself had 717,000 inhabitants.<ref>''Statistische Berichte'', No.viii/19/1, p.24.</ref>

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[[File:Gumbinnen,_East_Prussia.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Gumbinnen in the 1930s]]
[[File:East Prussia Nemmersdorf massacre.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Victims of the Red Army Oct 1944.]]
[[File:East Prussia Nemmersdorf massacre grave Oct 1945.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Burial marker of 24 murdered civilians from Nemmersdorf.]]
'''Gumbinnen''' was a large town and county on the river Pissa, and in the government district of the same name in [[East Prussia]] made infamous by the appalling atrocities against civilians here, "inconceivable and repulsive to the European mind", carried out by the [[Soviet Union]]'s army on 20 October, 1944, during [[World War Two]].<ref>Schieder, Professor Theodor, editor, ''The Expulsion of the German Population from the Territories East of the Oder-Neisse Line'', Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims, [[Bonn]], 1954, vol.1, pps: 12 & 49.</ref> In February/March 1944 the county itself had 717,000 inhabitants.<ref>''Statistische Berichte'', No.viii/19/1, p.24.</ref>

Thirty years previously, when the First Russian Army invaded [[East Prussia]] during the opening phases of [[World War I]], they defeated a significantly inferior German force at Gumbinnen on 20 August 1914. The Russians caused widespread damage and looting as they marched into the province.

==Soviet Army Atrocities==
In this district, towns and farms alike were plundered and often burned. In October 1944 the [[Soviet Union|Red Army]] under the command of General Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky broke through into [[East Prussia]] reaching the village of Nemmersdorf, in the district of Gumbinnen. Its remaining inhabitants, all women and children, were slaughtered "in the most gruesome and bestial manner". Many were crucified. Moreover, fifty French [[prisoners of war]] had also been murdered trying to protect them. The German Fourth Army under General [[Friedrich Hossbach]] pushed the Soviets back out of German territory by November 5, and the authorities immediately invited neutral correspondents and doctors from [[Estonia]], [[Switzerland]], [[Sweden]] and [[Spain]] "to witness the frightful scene".<ref>Charman, Terry, ''The German Home Front 1935-45'', London, 1989, p.186. ISBN 0-7126-2183-0</ref> The Soviets soon returned, however, and men were murdered or deported to the Soviet Union as [[slave labour]]; husbands and fathers, sons and brothers, were made to hold lamps and watch while whole squads of soldiers violated and [[rape]]d their women, girls as young as eight, to grandmothers in their eighties. If the men resisted they were shot, or castrated and then shot. Women who resisted too strongly were knifed and disembowelled. Officers pulled rank to rape the prettiest young women. [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], then a captain in the Red Army, sorrowfully wrote: "whoever was still a virgin, was soon to become a woman; the women soon to become corpses; their eyes bloody, already glazed over, pleaded to be killed." German civilian defence men, the ''[[Volkssturm]]'', were doused in petrol and set aflame. Women were nailed naked to barn doors; babies with their heads bashed in littered the floors of ravaged homes.<ref>Whiting, Charles, ''The Home Front: Germany'', Time-Life Books Inc., Chicago, 1982, pps:188-193.</ref>

==References==
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* de Zayas, Professor Dr.Alfred-Maurice, ''A Terrible Revenge'' - The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1986, paperback edition New York, May 2006, pps:41-3. ISBN 978-1-4039-7308-5

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