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 . In 1945 , during the Battle of Königsberg , a German counter-attack recaptured Metgethen from the Red Army . German military personnel reported evidence of a massacre of civilians carried out by the Red Army during the three weeks the village was under Soviet occupation
massacre of civilians
Metgethen massacre
Imeni Alexandra Kosmodemyanskogo