The Ústí massacre (Czech: Ústecký masakr, German: Massaker von Aussig) was a lynching of ethnic Germans, triggered by the explosion of an ammunition depot, in Ústí nad Labem (Aussig an der Elbe), a largely ethnic German city in northern parts of the Bohemian Sudetenland, that occurred shortly after the end of World War II, on 31 July 1945.
Neither the reason for the explosion nor subsequent pogrom has ever been conclusively identified; the official government investigation following the massacre placed blame on the Werwolf forces (Nazi saboteurs), however the outcome of the investigation has been called into question by contemporary historians, as additional equally reasonable possibilities exist.
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