Word: tannenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian armies in 1914 failed to do: clamp a bear hug on the province of East Prussia. Chernyakhovsky had struck from the east and north, Rokossovsky from the southeast. They ripped through historic forests, the hunting grounds of the Kaisers, through cities rich in Prussian military lore-Tilsit, Gumbinnen, Tannenberg, Allenstein...
...north Rokossovsky's forces, with a thundering echo of history, pierced a memorable spot: Tannenberg. There the Russians looked upon the huge tomb of Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, There Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler's onetime mentor, Ludendorff, had cut to pieces a Russian army in one of World War I's classic victories. When the Germans struck in 1914, the Russians were at the same points they passed this week-Gumbinnen in the northeast, Tannenberg in the south. But this time there were also vast differences : 1) Ludendorff's daring now appeared to be possessed...
...week. The natural defenses before them-swamps, lakes and dense forests-were forbidding. The man-made defenses, particularly the strategic network of railways built long ago, were equally formidable. In this treacherous country, the Tsarist armies of World War I suffered their first great defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg...
...Great Powers from 1895 on, and their failure to understand the true German designs, convinced the Berlin leaders that in the near future they could satisfy their wildest ambitions. Consequently the Pan-German scheme was extended to cover the whole world." He quotes Pan-Germanist Otto Richard Tannenberg (Greater Germany, the Work of the Twentieth Century) to prove that as early as 1911 Germany planned by 1950 to expand out of Europe and control the strategic points of the world, on land and sea, in Africa, Asia and the Americas, including all of South America south of the Tropic...
...group of cards is shown celebrating various zeppelin and plane bombing attacks on Antwerp, Yarmouth, and other cities. In another set of postcards the German propagandists are shown attacking the Italians of 1915 as "treulos" and "falsch," and ridiculing the Russian army for its defeat at Tannenberg...