Word: tannenburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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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