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Last Friday, I released a video about the life of Paul von Hindenburg, and to give you a spoiler if you missed it: one of the battles that made him into a living legend, was the Battle of Tannenberg at the beginning of the First World War. The German forces annihilated the Russians and the victory cemented von Hindenburg’s reputation within Germany. After the crushing defeat, the commander of the Russian army took his own life and as I was reading up on this, he really sparked my curiosity. Who was this man, that led such a crushing defeat, and what was his background?

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Time Codes:

0:45 Early Life
3:48 The Battle of Tannenberg

Sources:

Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the First World War (Routledge, 2006).
Hosking, Geoffrey A. Russia and the Russians: A History (Harvard University Press, 2001).
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. August 1914: A Novel: The Red Wheel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).
Wheeler-Bennett, John. Hindenburg: the wooden titan (Springer, 1967).

While I am aware that August 1914 is a novel and not an academic source, it provided a very vivid account of the Russian campaign (I believe I read it in my first year of university).

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