Word: tannenberg
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Military critics have been inclined to give credit to General von Ludendorff for the Tannenberg victory. Be that as it may, Hindenburg got public credit for the victories; his immense wooden statue in War-time Berlin was veritably the fulcrum post of German patriotism and his popularity dwarfed all the leaders of Germany...
...present is the personality of the Field Marshal. In 1914. he was recalled from the retirement into which he had been sent by the Kaiser, appointed to the command of the Eighth Army and as such won the immortal (from the German point of view) victories of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes. He was subsequently promoted to be Field Marshal, appointed Chief of the General Staff (the highest Army position) in succession to Falkenhayn...
...Hindenburg has become a forgotten myth, since he has entered the political field. The staunchest of Germany's militarists, the victor of Tannenberg and a hundred lesser battles, remains no longer silent and aloof among the great field-marshalls of Germany. Today he is be-leaguered by the political pack which helps and snarls at his heels...