Tannenberg - Stallupönen and Gumbinnen

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

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

The Germans and Russians are ready to fight, and each gives battle. The Russian 1st Army invades East Prussia from the east, and meets German 8th Army forces at Stallupönen. Both sides clash again at Gumbinnen, where the Germans suffer a stinging defeat that sets off a panic within 8th Army headquarters.

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0:00.0	Tell General von Pritvitz that General von François will break off the battle when the Russians are beaten.
0:11.0	Lieutenant General Hermann von François, First Corps, German Eighth Army, Staluponen, East Prussia, August 17th, 1914. Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast, and Tannenberg, part two.
0:50.4	Staluponan and Gumbinen.
0:55.0	In the last episode, we began setting the stage for the Battle of Tannenberg by looking at the July crisis of 1914, the steady march to war, and the makeup of the Russian and German military machines.
1:10.0	We're going to begin this episode by completing the stage setting. We'll look at some of the Russian and German military machines. We're going to begin this episode by completing the stage setting.
1:14.5	We'll look at some of the ground through which the fighting will take place.
1:18.3	We'll do our best to match the old German names with the current Polish and Russian ones,
1:23.4	as much of this territory is now part of Poland or Russia and even a little bit of Lithuania.
1:32.3	We'll also look at the German and Russian army formations and the commanders set to meet on the battlefields.
1:39.3	Finally, we're going to begin the campaign itself.
1:46.4	Much of what was East Prussia in 1914 is today part of Poland, which would be resurrected at the end of the Great War.
1:56.4	Some of the territory has become part of Kaliningrad Oblast, formerly the German city of Konigsberg,
2:03.3	which was absorbed into Russia itself after World War II. A part of it has even become part of
2:10.5	Lithuania, as just mentioned. But in 1914, this was the eastern edge of the German Empire. Starting from the south, the
2:22.5	first area was approximately 75 miles wide and ran from the cities of Johannesburg to
2:30.5	Soldau, today known as Pige and Jadovo.
2:36.7	This was an area on the border with Russian Poland at the time,
2:40.8	and would be in the invasion path of a Russian army pushing north out of the Polish salient.
2:47.1	This was an area of good roads, but with thick tracts of forests and lakes that could make communications hard between units.
2:56.4	North of this area are the Yejjore Majorskaya, the Missourian Lakes.
3:02.9	The lakes were huge obstacles to an advance from the east, with the only road running between
3:09.8	them concluding at Festa Boyon, a fortress located near today's Gajitsko in Poland.
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