Battle of Tannenberg | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-26

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00:01:12 1 Background
00:07:28 2 Prelude: 17–22 August
00:12:56 3 Battle
00:13:05 3.1 Consolidation of the German Eighth Army
00:15:48 3.2 Early phases of battle: 23–26 August
00:20:19 3.3 Main battle: 26–30 August
00:28:49 4 Aftermath
00:31:44 5 Post-war legacy
00:32:34 6 Footnotes
00:32:43 7 Further reading



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The Battle of Tannenberg was fought between Russia and Germany between the 26th and 30th of 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. 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 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. It brought considerable prestige to Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his rising staff-officer Erich Ludendorff.
Although the battle actually took place near Allenstein (Olsztyn), Hindenburg named it after Tannenberg, 30 km to the west, in order to avenge the defeat of the Teutonic Knights 500 years earlier at the Battle of Grunwald by Poland-Lithuania (which was also known as the Battle of Tannenberg in German).