TANNENBERG

täˈnənbĕrkˌ, Pol. Stębark, village, Warmińsko-Mazurskie prov., NE Poland, near Olsztyn. Formerly in East Prussia, it was transferred (1945) by the Potsdam Conference to Polish administration. Two important battles were fought there. In the first, fought in 1410 between Tannenberg and the nearby village of Grünwald, Polish and Lithuanian forces under Ladislaus II (Ladislaus Jagiello) halted the eastward expansion of the Teutonic Knights. The second and better-known battle occurred during World War I (Aug. 27–30, 1914). Russian armies under generals Samsonov and Rennenkampf had invaded East Prussia from the south and east, respectively. German strategy was to surround Samsonov's forces; 90,000 Russian prisoners were taken, and Samsonov committed suicide. Rennenkampf, whose unwillingness to aid Samsonov greatly facilitated the German victory, was defeated soon afterward in the battle of the Masurian Lakes. The Russian advance into East Prussia, though ill-fated, relieved considerably the German pressure against the West during the first critical weeks of the war. The battle of Tannenberg is a central event in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel August 1914 (1972).

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The History of the Organ in the United States
Book by Orpha Ochse; Indiana University Press, 1975
Subjects: Organ (Musical Instrument)--United States--History, Organ Builders--United States
...Philip Feyring 49 , David Tannenberg 51 , Johann Philip Bachmann...50 David Tannenbergs Last Organ, 1804 58...When the Moravian organ builder David Tannenberg complained to the elders of the church...
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Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933)
Book by Bernadette Kester; Amsterdam University Press, 2003
Subjects: Motion Pictures--Germany--History--20th Century, Propaganda, German--History--20th Century, World War, 1914-1918--Motion Pictures And The War
...the war 95 The battles of Liege, Tannenberg and the Marne River 97 The battle...monuments for the unknown soldier 106 TANNENBERG 112 TANNENBERG without Von Hindenburg 113 History...
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The Vanished Kingdom: Travels through the History of Prussia
Book by James Charles Roy; Westview Press, 1999
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Politics And Government--1989-, National Characteristics, Prussian, Political Culture--Germany--Prussia, Prussia (Germany)--Historiography, Prussia (Germany)--History--Philosophy
...163 10. Tannenberg: The Siamese Twins 177...Battle standards, Tannenberg 178...15 Disastrous defeat at Battle of Tannenberg. 1454-1466 Order battles Poland...
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History of the World War - Vol. 1
Book by Frank H. Simonds; Doubleday Page, 1917
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
...Finished long before The Marne ended. IX. TANNENBERG. Franco-Russian plans for invasion of...from Warsaw--Hindenburgs artillery wins at Tannenberg--The other Russian army retires--Tannenberg a great victory--It saved Gemany, as...
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The Enemy within: The inside Story of German Sabotage in America
Book by Henry Landau; G.P. Putmans sons, 1937
Subjects: Sabotage, World War, 1914-1918--Secret Service--Germany, World War, 1914-1918--United States
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The Battle of the Marne: Myths and Reality of Germany's "Fateful Battle" (1)
Journal article by Annika Mombauer; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Battles--Myths and legends
...any effect for the ensuing Battle of Tannenberg (27-30 August 1914). Instead, as was...turning it into a victory at the Battle of Tannenberg. Arguably, those two corps could have...12693/38. (14.) Dennis E. Showalter, Tannenberg. Clash of Empires (Hamden, Conn.: Archon...
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Austria-Hungary and the Brusilov Offensive of 1916
Journal article by Graydon A. Tunstall; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008
Subjects: Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867-1918--History, World War I, 1914-1918
...Germany. Habsburg forces suffered serious military defeat at the two battles of Lemberg, while the Germans emerged victorious at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes on the Eastern Front. However, on the Western Front, German troops were soundly defeated at the battle...
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The Teutonic Knights and Baltic Chivalry
Journal article by William Urban; The Historian, Vol. 57, 1995
Subjects: Germany--History, Knights and knighthood--History
...The orders defeat at the battle of Tannenberg (Grunwald) in 1410 essentially settled...11 Sven Ekdahl, Die Schlacht bei Tannenberg 1410 (Berlin, 1982); Stefan Kuczynski...1409-1411 (Warsaw, 1987); Sven Ekdahl, "Tannenberg/Grunwald - ein politisches Symbol in...
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When Baltic Eyes . . . a Look at Some Baltic Holocaust Poems
Journal article by Inta Ezergailis; World Literature Today, Vol. 73, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Pompeii. From shattered Viking ships, the battlefield of Tannenberg, from huts of serfs, conscription camps, Castilian...Mammoth hunts," in Pompeii, at the battles of the Vikings, in Tannenberg where in a 1410 battle Poland-Lithuania defeated...
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Gebrauchsgraphik as an Early Graphic Design Journal, 1924-1938
Journal article by Jeremy Aynsley; Journal of Design History, Vol. 5, 1992
Subjects: Design--History
...acknowledging modern French posters and titling combining the new Tannenberg typeface and sanserif typeface for its English title was...contribute a cover to Gebrauchsgraphik 16 . 72 13 Tannenberg typeface by the Stempel foundry announced in Gebrauchsgraphik...
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What Ollie North Told Me before He Took the Fifth
Magazine article by Neil C. Livingstone; National Review, Vol. 39, January 30, 1987
Subjects: Hostage negotiations--Iran, Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990--Analysis, Iranian foreign relations--United States, North, Oliver L.--International relations, United States, United States foreign relations--Iran
...for the Iranians was a replay of theRussian armys disastrous Tannenberg campaign during the First World War, in which the Russians...times those of Germany. The Russians never recovered from the Tannenberg disaster; the seeds of the collapse of the Czar and the rise...
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Filming the First World War: Jonathan Lewis and Hew Strachan Point out the Daunting Challenges and Exciting Opportunities Involved in Producing a New Major TV Series
Magazine article by Jonathan Lewis, Hew Strachan; History Today, Vol. 53, October 2003
Subjects: Documentary films, Filmmakers--Attitudes, Lewis, Jonathan--Attitudes, Strachan, Hew--Attitudes, War films, War in motion pictures, World War I, 1939-1945--International aspects
...The cameras filmed the dressing-stations, the men at rest and play, the children mobbing von Hindenburg and Ludendorff after Tannenberg, the fortress city of Przemysl on the day the Russians captured it with its anxious-faced Austro-Hungarian and Jewish inhabitants...
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Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, September 2002
Subjects: English fiction
...life" as Amis describes the situation in post-revolutionary Russia, had begun some time before, perhaps in the marshes of Tannenberg, and was to make itself felt in other post-World War I societies as well. Some confrontation with this line of thinking...
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November 1916: The Red Wheel/Knot II
Magazine article by Daniel J. Mahoney; New Criterion, Vol. 17, February 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, November 1916: The Red Wheel/Knot II (Book)--Reviews
...readers of August 1914 will remember, Vorotyntsev had the temerity to defend General Samsonov after the disastrous Battle of Tannenberg when the regime was looking for scapegoats to blame for its generalized corruption and incompetence. Vorotyntsev is the...
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The Fatal Legacy: Most Books and Television Programmes about Hitler Reflect a Taste for Pornography, Not a Thirst for Knowledge. What We Really Need Is a History Written with an Appreciation of Today's Germany Rather Than a Jaundiced Recollection of Its Past
Magazine article by Richard Gott; New Statesman, Vol. 132, November 10, 2003
Subjects: The Coming of the Third Reich (Book)
...Frau Himmler was plainly an early hippy, interested in "occultism, herbalism, homoeopathy". Ludendorffs wife helped start the Tannenberg League, which attacked not just the Jews, but also the Jesuits and the Catholic Church. Evans notes that the Nazis scored...


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Technology's Challenge to Leadership
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, February 4, 1996
...resulted in the Germans intercepting uncoded Russian radio messages in 1914, a key factor in their victory at the battle of Tannenberg. Meanwhile, off duty, the second Nicholas was enjoying private showings of the new moving pictures while denying cinematography...
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Quizzene to Get Johnston Back on Track
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 1, 2006
...finish an excellent second to the useful Finalmente. He faces strong opposition again here in impressive Pontefract winner Tannenberg and the progressive Tilt, but Quizzene is 4lb well in on official figures and conditions are set fair for him to go very close...
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Quizzene to Get Johnston Back on Track; TODAY'S RACING
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 1, 2006
...finish an excellent second to the useful Finalmente. He faces strong opposition again here in impressive Pontefract winner Tannenberg and the progressive Tilt, but Quizzene is 4lb well in on official figures and conditions are set fair for him to go very close...
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Rugby Union:
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 25, 2007
...IRE) (20) (D)Mrs A L King8 8 8Greg Fairley (3)P11 12-53204Wulimaster (USA) (14) D Barker4 8 5D ODonohoe3 12 declared 2006: TANNENBERG(IRE) 5 8 8 D McKeown 5-1 (G A Swinbank) drawn (8) 7 ran BETTING: 7-2 Heathyards Pride, 4-1 La Estrella, 5-1 Cripsey Brook...
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Silence That Isn't Golden
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 28, 2005
...He was famous for his feats of physical strength and his prowess as an amateur wrestler. He was captured at the Battle of Tannenberg around August 30, 1914, and held alongside British and French officers at Burg, near Magdeburg in eastern Germany. Edvards...
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Tannenberg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TANNENBERG ta n nberk , Pol. Stebark, village, Warminsko-Mazurskie...were fought there. In the first, fought in 1410 between Tannenberg and the nearby village of Grunwald, Polish and Lithuanian...during the first critical weeks of the war. The battle of Tannenberg is a central event in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns novel...
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GrÜnwald, Battle Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GRUNWALD, BATTLE OF 1410: see Tannenberg . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Hoffmann, Max
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1869 1927, German general in World War I. A brilliant strategist, he contributed to the German victory over the Russians at Tannenberg and in 1916 became chief of staff of the eastern armies. As military representative he helped negotiate the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk...
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Samsonov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...relieve German pressure on the French, it was virtually annihilated by German field marshal Hindenburg in the battle of Tannenberg (Aug., 1914). His defeat was partly caused by the failure of General Rennenkampf to bring his forces to Samsonovs aid. Samsonov...
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Zizka, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...genius the opportunity to develop fully, Zizka served under various lords; he fought (1410) on the Polish side in the battle of Tannenberg, in which the Teutonic Knights were defeated. When the Hussite Wars broke out in 1420, Zizka was about 60 years old and...
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