#OPERATION TANNENBERG SERIES#

The text is complemented by full-color maps that guide the reader through specific actions and campaigns.

#OPERATION TANNENBERG SERIES#

With the aid of numerous black and white and color photographs, many previously unpublished, the World War I series recreates the battles and campaigns that raged across the surface of the globe, on land, at sea and in the air. In fact, the greatest advance of the whole war was made in the East by the German Army in the summer of 1915. Because of this, front lines in the East kept on shifting throughout the conflict, and not just near the beginning and end of the fighting, as was the case in the West. In short, on the Eastern front, the side defending did not have the overwhelming advantages it had on the Western front. There was also the fact that the terrain in the Eastern European theater was quite solid, often making it near impossible to construct anything resembling the complicated trench systems on the Western Front, which tended to have muddier and much more workable terrain. Once broken, the sparse communication networks made it difficult for the defender to rush reinforcements to the rupture in the line to mount a rapid counteroffensive and seal off a breakthrough. This was because the greater length of the front ensured that the density of soldiers in the line was lower so the line was easier to break.

While World War I on the Western Front developed into trench warfare, the battle lines on the Eastern Front were much more fluid and trenches never truly developed. This had a drastic effect on the nature of the warfare. The theater of war was roughly delimited by the Baltic Sea in the West and Moscow in the East, a distance of 1,200 kilometers, and Saint Petersburg in the North and the Black Sea in the South, a distance of more than 1,600 kilometers. Battle of Tannenberg, (August 2630, 1914), World War I battle fought at Tannenberg, East Prussia (now Stbark, Poland), that ended in a German victory over. In Pomerania alone, 36,000вЂ“42,000 Poles, including children, were killed before the end of 1939.The length of the front in the East was much longer than in the West.

Operation Tannenberg was followed by the Intelligenzaktion, a second phase of the Unternehmen Tannenberg directed by Heydrich's Sonderreferat from Berlin, which lasted until January 1940. It is estimated that up to 20,000 Germans living in Poland belonged to organizations involved in various forms of subversion. Members of the German minority living in Poland assisted in preparing the lists. The top secret lists identified more than 61,000 members of the Polish elite: activists, intelligentsia, scholars, clergy, actors, former officers and others, who were to be interned or shot. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov. The shootings were conducted with the use of a proscription list, compiled by the Gestapo in the span of two years before the 1939 invasion. The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany between 26 and 30 August 1914, the first month of World War I. Operation Tannenberg was a codename for one of the anti-Polish extermination actions by Nazi Germany that were directed at the Poles during the opening stages of World War II in Europe, as part of the Generalplan Ost for the German colonization of the East.

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