The Usti Massacre was a mass lynching of ethnic Germans in Usti nad Labem, a northern city of Czechoslovakia in post-World War II Europe, on July 31, 1945.
In the early hours of the morning of July 31, a munitions dump in Usti nad Labem exploded. The Czech authorities immediately blamed the explosion on ethnic German partisans. Shortly afterwards, more than 80 German speaking inhabitants in the surrounding area were rounded up, shot dead or thrown off a bridge and then shot in the water.
In 1990, Czech investigators believed that a Czech soldier by the name of Bedrich Pokorny, was responsible for the explosion, by planting dynamite in the munitions dump, as revenge against Germans.
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