Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Palmnicken ya kama shi daga Red Army a ranar 7 ga Afrilu, 1945, a lokacin kwanakin karshe na yakin. Kashi na uku na arewacin Gabashin Prussia, gami da Palmnicken, ya zama wani ɓangare na Tarayyar Soviet a cikin 1945 a ƙarƙashin yanayin canje-canjen kan iyaka da aka ayyana a taron Potsdam. Yawan mutanen Jamus
an kwashe ko kuma daga baya aka kore shi zuwa yammacin Jamus. Palmnicken an sake masa suna Yantarny, wanda aka samo daga "yantar", kalmar Rasha don amber, kuma 'yan Soviet suka sake komawa, galibi' yan Rasha, da Belarusians, Ukrainians, da Tatars.