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The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian and the German Empires in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian Second Army against the German Eighth Army between 26 August and 30 August 1914. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army. A series of follow-up battles destroyed the majority of the First Army as well, and kept the Russians off-balance until the spring of 1915. The battle is notable particularly for a number of rapid movements of complete German corps by train, allowing a single German army to concentrate its forces against each Russian army in turn.

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  • Battle of Tannenberg
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  • The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian and the German Empires in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian Second Army against the German Eighth Army between 26 August and 30 August 1914. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army. A series of follow-up battles destroyed the majority of the First Army as well, and kept the Russians off-balance until the spring of 1915. The battle is notable particularly for a number of rapid movements of complete German corps by train, allowing a single German army to concentrate its forces against each Russian army in turn.
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Partof
  • the Eastern Front of World War I
Date
  • --08-30
Commander
  • Erich Ludendorff
  • Paul von Hindenburg
  • Paul von Rennenkampf
  • Max Hoffmann
  • Alexander Samsonov †
Caption
  • Russian prisoners of war after the Battle of Tannenberg.
Casualties
  • 500(xsd:integer)
  • 5000(xsd:integer)
  • 7000(xsd:integer)
  • 12000(xsd:integer)
  • 50000(xsd:integer)
  • 90000(xsd:integer)
  • 100000(xsd:integer)
  • Russian sources: 30,000 killed and wounded
Result
  • Decisive German victory
Place
  • Near Allenstein, East Prussia
Conflict
  • Battle of Tannenberg
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  • The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian and the German Empires in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian Second Army against the German Eighth Army between 26 August and 30 August 1914. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army. A series of follow-up battles destroyed the majority of the First Army as well, and kept the Russians off-balance until the spring of 1915. The battle is notable particularly for a number of rapid movements of complete German corps by train, allowing a single German army to concentrate its forces against each Russian army in turn. Although the battle actually took place close to Allenstein (Olsztyn), General Erich Ludendorff's aide, Colonel Max Hoffmann, suggested naming it after Tannenberg, in the interest of Pan-German ideology, to counter the defeat of the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) in 1410 by the Poles, Lithuanians and Tatars. As pointed out by the Australian historian Christopher Clark, the actual Tannenberg is some to the west, and there was no intrinsic reason—other than the historical battle and its emotive resonance in the narrative of German and Slavic nationalism—to give its name to the 1914 battle.
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