Hindenburg at the Battle of Tannenberg. He’s the big bellied one in the Picklehaube.
One wonders if Angela Merkel reminded Messr. Putin, in their little phone chat this morning, that today marks the anniversary of the Battle of Tanenburg, which put an emphatic halt on the Russian advance westward. Nearly 100,000 Russian troop were captured, and the Russian army was thrown into disarray. The leadership of the generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff was so brilliant, in fact, that they were soon given command of the Western front. (And, by 1918, the men were the de facto rulers of the German Empire.)
The Russian advance through August 26:
And here’s the way the Germans trapped the Russian 2nd Army:
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