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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 month of World War I. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov .
The 8th Army (German: 8. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 8 / A.O.K. 8) was an army level command of the German Army in World War I.It was formed on mobilization in August 1914 from the I Army Inspectorate. [1]
In the Battle of Tannenberg, the casualties of the Russian 2nd Army amounted to 120,219 KIA, WIA, MIA, while the German 8th Army had only 13,058 casualties. [42] The Second Army was destroyed and Samsonov shot himself. The Germans then forced the First and Tenth Armies to retreat out of East Prussia in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes.
Chapter 16 presents Germany's reaction to the invasion which culminates at the Battle of Tannenberg, where the Russian advance is stopped, decisively. Tuchman covers the series of errors, faulty plans, poor communications, and poor logistics, which, among other things, decidedly helped the French in the west.
Following the failed German counterattack at the Battle of Gumbinnen and the subsequent German withdrawal, the 1st Army did not press on, allowing the 2nd Army to catch up but due to a breakdown in communication (partly due to the animosity of the two commanders) the 2nd Army was not made aware of this and so it continued to march on, a fatal ...
German 8th Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26–31 August 1914 [2] XVII Army Corps – General August von Mackensen. 35th Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. Otto Hennig 70th Infantry Brigade – Maj. Gen. Heinrich Schmidt von Knobelsdorff 21st Infantry – Colonel Brunnemann 61st Infantry – Maj. Lüdecke 87th Infantry Brigade – Maj. Gen ...
The Russian offensive in the Battle of Stallupönen, which was the opening battle of the Eastern Front, [57] quickly turned to a disastrous defeat following the Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914; [58] even though the Russians were successfully defending at Gumbinnen a while before Tannenberg.
A famous episode in the earlier version of the novel narrates the state of mind of General Samsonov, the Russian commander, after his disastrous defeat in what came to be known as the Battle of Tannenberg. Samsonov, tormented by the scale of the defeat and his fear of reporting this failure to the Tsar, eventually commits suicide.