January 1945. Result: Allied victory Mass rapes were especially common and brutal in eastern Germany, east Prussia, and the regions of Poland that were annexed by … The division remained in the village of Ol’shanka, and on the 31st we set out in the direction of Magriboven. Dead German civilians in Nemmersdorf, East Prussia. The official rationale was to reduce espionage and other resistance behind the Russian front lines. A Russian soldier told the Danzig women to seek shelter in the Catholic cathedral to protect them from the rapes. After hundreds of women and girls were securely inside, the Russian soldiers entered and “playing the organ and ringing the bells, … A trailer of the rape and atrocities that the appraoching Russian army would commit in … 30 July 1914. The place the Russians entered Germany. A region of more than forty versts of East Prussia along the border was enveloped by fire. News of Soviet atrocities, spread and exaggerated by Nazi propaganda, hastened the flight of ethnic Germans from much of Eastern The Nemmersdorf Massacre. East Prussia. russian atrocities in east prussia, Date: 29 October 1944 – 13 February 1945 (108 days) Budapest and northwestern Hungary. We traveled lightly, taking only our weapons, the rest we left behind, we were on field patrol. As many as 13,600 people, including children and the elderly, were deported to Siberia. Deportations from East Prussia during World War I was a forced deportation of local inhabitants from Russian-occupied areas of East Prussia to remote areas of the Russian Empire in 1914–1915.