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Germany So Completely Annihilated Russia At the WW1 Battle of Tannenberg That A Russian General Committed Suicide

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Battle of Tannenberg was the first major battle of World War One, fought between Germany and Russia, who surprised everyone with its fast mobilization. This muddled the plans of Germany, which sought to quickly fight a two-front war against France...

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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

1:38.6

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.

1:44.0

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast where we look at the forgotten, neglected,

1:48.4

strange and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

2:03.5

Welcome back everyone in our series on Key Battles on World War One.

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We spent the first two episodes just setting the stage because the stage is the size of

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the planet earth and there is a lot to discuss. When we ended the last episode, James and I were

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talking about how it seemed a giant machine had been set in motion with World War One.

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And at some point it couldn't stop even if the participants wanted to.

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