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Parties postpone a decisive battle to summer 1410. The Grand Duke of Lithuania marries the heir to the Polish throne in 1385. Poland and Lithuania Allied Battle with Prussia Set (01:44) Drinking and hunting fill knight's idle time. Teutonic knights from all over Europe come to Marienburg to join semiannual raids on Prussia's neighbors. The Teutonic Order in Prussia exploits and dominates a vast array of commerce. The Teutonic Order strengthens its grip on Prussia. Once again unified in 1333 under King Casimir, Poland purges German language and fosters development. German Colony on the Baltic (02:22)ĭefeated by the Russians at the Gulf of Finland, the Teutonic Knights return to securing and colonizing Prussia with an iron fist. Turning to Russia, the Knights meet more effective resistance. Ordered to forcibly convert non-Catholics, the Teutonic Knights invade and brutalize Lithuania. Knights Invade Lithuania and Russia (03:05) Poland Asks for Teutonic Knights' Help (02:38)įailed attempts to convert their neighbors to Christianity prompt the Poles to invite, with papal blessing, the Teutonic Knights into Poland and adjacent territory. Monuments on the battlefield, origins of the Teutonic Knights, and a brief historical context of Poland introduce the story of the Battle of Tannenberg.
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Henri de Turenne and Daniel Costelle present the series "Turning Points in History." This segment describes the Battle of Tannenberg between German and Polish/Lithuanian forces.
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Mournful, forsaken, they look at us through the barbed wire…”īy 30 August, more than 90,000 Russians had been captured about 30,000 had been killed or wounded barely 10,000 escaped.Opening Credits: The Battle of Tannenberg (01:15) FREE PREVIEW Here the prisoners are strewn about on the bare earth, lying, sitting, clasping their heads, standing, walking, exhausted, some with their arms in slings, some bandaged, some unbandaged, some bruised, some with open wounds and others, for some reason, in nothing but their underwear some are barefoot and none of them, of course, have been fed. “For other prisoners it is even worse: they are not allowed to march away but are harnessed instead of horses to their own Russian guns, which are now trophies of war, and have to drag them, pull them and push them up to where the victors are patrolling the main road in armoured cars, with armed cyclists and machine-gunners ready to open fire…The column of men on foot is led into a cage for people, fenced in with barbed wire, so makeshift as to be little more than symbolic, on temporary poles stuck into the ground. The Russian forces, many abandoning their weapons, fled in disorder, with huge numbers taken prisoner by the encircling Germans. The following day, the 2nd Army’s commander, General Alexander Samsonov, recognised that his force was completely surrounded and gave the order to withdraw – too late. The fast-moving Germans, helped by the planning of Colonel Maximilian Hoffman and by the capture of two unencrypted messages revealing the Russians’ intentions, were able to encircle the 2nd Army before it could link up with the 1st.Ī huge German artillery assault on 27 August (14 August in the Russian calendar) was a major turning-point. The Russians launched a vast two-pronged attack on East Prussia using its 1st and 2nd Armies, but lacked the competence to complete it. The Battle of Tannenberg, less than a month into the war, was one of Russia’s greatest military disasters.
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