It brought high prestige to Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his rising staff-officer Erich Ludendorff.Īlthough the battle actually took place near Allenstein (Olsztyn), Hindenburg named it after Tannenberg, 30 km to the west, in order to, in German eyes, avenge the defeat of the Teutonic Knights 500 years earlier at the Battle of Grunwald (which was always known as the Battle of Tannenberg in German). This chapter discusses the sudden emergence of the Hindenburg myth after the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914. The battle is particularly notable for fast rail movements by the Germans, enabling them to concentrate against each of the two Russian armies in turn, and also for the failure of the Russians to encode their radio messages.
This essay analyses the role of the battle in German collective memory up.
#BATTLE OF TANNENBERG BATTLE SERIES#
A series of follow-up battles (First Masurian Lakes) destroyed most of the First Army as well and kept the Russians off balance until the spring of 1915. The Battle of Tannenberg in late August 1914 has been described as the ‘most powerful German myth’ of the First World War. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov. The 1410 Battle of Tannenberg (often called the Battle of Grunwald today to differentiate it from the 1914 battle) established the Polish-Lithuanian.
The Battle of Tannenberg was fought between Russia and Germany from 26–30 August 1914, during the first month of World War I. The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany between 23 and 30 August 1914, the first.
0 kommentar(er)
