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This is the order of battle for both the Russian and German armies at the Battle of Tannenberg, August 17 to September 2, 1914. Russian Northwestern Front [ edit ]
Tannenberg is a 1932 Swiss–German war film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Hans Stüwe, Käthe Haack and Jutta Sauer. The film is based on the 1914 Battle of Tannenberg during the First World War. [1] It focuses on German landowner Captain von Arndt and his family.
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 .
Nine days later the Eighth Army surrounded most of a Russian army at Tannenberg, taking 92,000 prisoners in one of the great victories in German history. Twice during the battle Ludendorff wanted to break off, fearing that the second Russian army was about to strike their rear, but Hindenburg held firm.
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]
19 to 20 August – Battle of Gumbinnen; 23–31 August – Battle of Tannenberg; 5–15 September – First Battle of the Masurian Lakes; 25 to 30 September – Battle of the Njemen; 1 October to 5 November – position Fights at Grajewo-Wiżajny; 6–8 November – Battle of Göritten; 13–16 November – Battle of the Romintener Heath
In the early months of war on the Eastern Front, the German Eighth Army conducted a series of almost miraculous actions against the two Russian armies facing them. After surrounding and then destroying the Russian Second Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in late August, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff wheeled their troops to face the Russian First Army at the First Battle of the ...
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