Word: tannenburg
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...German armies in the West were plunging through France toward the Marne, the Russian steamroller bit deep into East Prussia. General Hindenburg was jerked from retirement, sent to oppose Russia with brilliant, erratic Erich Ludendorff as Chief of Staff. Followed the most brilliant campaign of the whole War. At Tannenburg one Russian army was annihilated, the other was completely broken up; one Russian General committed suicide. Hindenburg overnight became Germany's hero. His appointment as Chief of Staff was inevitable. Germany burgeoned with wooden Hindenburg idols, stuck full of nails...
...Commander-in-Chief who, in 1914, had flung back the Russian armies from that same East Prussia which he was trying now to save again. German decorum kept secret the nature of the plea made by Old Paul von Hindenburg, but German patriotism made refusal-to the victor of Tannenburg* -impossible. Soon the joint cabinets issued a communique not only approving the experts' plan for direct financial relief to East Prussia but recommending further aid in the form of reduced taxes on East Prussian farms and real estate, as well as lowering of the freight tariffs on the German...
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