Tannenberg - Flank and Collision

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This is a release of a former Patreon-only episode.

The German 8th Army receives two new leaders: Hindenburg and Ludendorff. They rush to stave off the Russian 2nd Army’s invasion from Russian Poland to the south. A classic battle of maneuver, modernized with modern weapons and heavy casualties, plays out. Corps, divisions, and brigades collide with each other as each seeks to turn their enemy’s flanks.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Do you see those retreating Russians?
0:06.0	Follow them.
0:08.0	Major General Kurt von Morgan, 3rd Reserve Division
0:15.0	German 8th Army, Kyrkin, East Prussia, August 28th, 1914. I'm ... ...
0:38.3	... You know, flank and collision.
1:36.3	Before we begin the episode, a quick note about the intro music and the outgoing music at the end of this episode.
1:45.3	That music comes courtesy of listener Brian, who created these two pieces of music and generously shared them with the podcast.
1:52.2	Brian creates music under the name Ashlingach on the Bandcamp website.
1:55.7	Links to his music will be posted in the episode notes.
1:57.6	Hope you enjoy.
2:02.9	Okay.
2:07.3	If you have the chance, follow this episode with Google Maps.
2:21.2	There, you will be able to type in the old German place names I'll be using, and Google Maps will take you to the new Polish, Russian, or Lithuanian name, as the place will be known today.
2:33.2	Following the double dose of bad news, the first of the German drubbing at Gumbinen, and the second,
2:36.0	that a massive Russian field army was advancing north out of the Polish salient.
2:39.0	German 8th Army Commander General Maximilian von Pritwitz and Gaffron called the German Oberstahir's
2:47.0	Leighton in Koblenz.
2:51.6	Pritz didn't even talk to his staff.
2:55.1	He informed General Helmut von Moltke that the situation in East Prussia was fast collapsing
3:02.4	and that he was pulling the 8th Army back behind the river Vistula immediately. A significant portion of East Prussia,
3:11.5	the heart of Prussian-led Germany, would be abandoned to the oncoming Russian hordes.
3:21.1	Moldka ordered that the Vistula line beheld no matter the cost.
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