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  Paul von Hindenburg
He retired from the army in 1911, but returned on the outbreak of World War I.
He was victorious in the Battle of Tannenberg (1914) and the 1915 Battle of the Masaurian Lakes[?] against the Russian army.
Much of the credit for these victories belongs to Colonel Hoffman, who recognized the significance of the breakdown in the security of the Russian Army's radio communications.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/Hindenburg.html   (381 words)

  
 Tannenberg Memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tannenberg Memorial was a German memorial remembering the fallen soldiers from the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914.
In 1935, Paul Hindenburg, German general and president, was buried there.
In 1945, as Soviet forces advanced into East Prussia, Hitler ordered Hindenburg's body disinterred and the memorial destroyed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tannenberg_Memorial   (90 words)

  
 The National Archives | Exhibitions & Learning online | First World War | Glossary
Tannenberg Village on the Masurian Lakes in eastern Prussia.
The Battle of Tannenberg (27-30 August 1914) ended in an overwhelming victory for the Germans, who killed, wounded or captured more than 150,000 Russian soldiers.
Tannenberg memorial German memorial commemorating the dead from the Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/glossary/glossary_t.htm   (717 words)

  
 Timotheus - Chez Risette Farm
Tannenberg *E* was Reserve Champion of the 1968 Neumünster approvals.
Tannenberg *E* was a popular sire in Germany until being imported to Canada in 1975.
Tannenberg *E* was also an outstanding broodmare sire.
www.chezrisette.com /CurrentSite/Donauperle.htm   (262 words)

  
 TIME.com: Tannenberg Monument -- Oct. 3, 1927 -- Page 1
And with memories of his famed battle "thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks of Vallom-brosa," Germany's greatest warrior showed no sign of emotion as he approached the mammoth octagon memorial, surmounted by huge, lofty towers.
"The Tannenberg national monument serves primarily as a memorial in commemoration of those who fell in freeing their Fatherland from enemy invasion.
Far away in Doorn the ex-Kaiser, too, bethought him of the Battle of Tannenberg and recalled that if Hindenberg and Ludendorff were its heroes, it was only because he had sent them there.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,731013,00.html   (769 words)

  
 Battle of Tannenberg
The Battle of Tannenberg of 1914 was a decisive conflict between Russia and Germany in the first days of World War I. The Russian 1st and 2nd armies and the German 8th Army fought from August 17 to September 2, 1914.
However, General Erich von Ludendorff, the chief of staff for new theatre commander Field-Marshal Paul von Hindenburg dated the official dispatch reporting the victory from the nearby village of Tannenberg (Stebark), and the battle is thus known to history.
In 1410, an ancestor of Hindenburg had fallen in an earlier battle near Tannenberg.
www.world-war-1.info /battles/tannenberg.php   (317 words)

  
 DAS REICH HOME PAGE - Panzer Division Kempf and the Buildup
The Tannenberg Celebration was to commemorate Hindenberg's victory at the battle of Tannenberg in World War I. In fact a large memorial had been constructed at the battle site in which were entombed the remains of Hindenberg and his wife.
The preparations (which even involved bringing in WWI veterans from Germany) were used to disguise the true purpose of the military build-up in East Prussia, that being the invasion of Poland.
Despite the obvious tension that was mounting between Germany and Poland, the units of the division continued to receive orders to practice for the Grand Parade planned for the Tannenberg celebrations.
www.dasreich.ca /kempf.html   (986 words)

  
 Paul von Hindenburg information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hindenburg was victorious in the Battle of Tannenberg (1914) and the 1914 Battle of the Masurian Lakes against the Russian army.
It has been argued that the political testament of Hindenburg’s will that was made public in 1934, in which Hindenburg expresses the greatest thanks for Hitler was forged by Oskar von Hindenburg as a way of ingratiating himself with Hitler.
Hindenburg was buried in the Tannenberg memorial against the wishes he had expressed during his life.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Paul_von_Hindenburg   (5548 words)

  
 Dedication of the Tannenberg Memorial (September 1927) - Biografie Willy Brandt
Dedication of the Tannenberg Memorial (September 1927) - Biografie Willy Brandt
In Hohenstein, East Prussia, the Tannenberg Memorial is dedicated on 18 September 1927.
It commemorates the First World War Battle of Tannenberg.
www.willy-brandt.org /bwbs_biografie/Dedication_of_the_Tannenberg_Memorial_B831.html   (128 words)

  
 War Documentary Descriptions
In Krakow, the Wehrmacht honors the memory of Poland's Marshal Pilsudski.
Newsreel 680 (15 September 1943), in memory of the recently deceased King Boris of Bulgaria, his last visit to Hitler's headquarters is shown.
In Rome, Graziani leads a march to the National Memorial, General Stahel (the German Commandant of Rome) and General Ricci (the commander of the fascist militia) accompany him.
www.germanvideo.com /war/tee.html   (14396 words)

  
 History of the Reich - 1933 and the bulding of the Autobahn and many important buildings in Germany.  Many Party ...
This tape also covers the history of von Hindenburg from his early years through his death and funeral.
It shows the massive memorial to the Field Marshall and his burial crypt.
It was originally the Tannenberg Battle Memorial, then it became the Hindenburg Memorial and burial crypt.
www.sharkhunters.com /tapeh116.htm   (238 words)

  
 Paul von Hindenburg - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, known ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Assigned as his army Chief of Staff was the staff officer Erich Ludendorff, fresh from the siege of Liege on the Western Front.
Hindenburg was victorious in the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes against the Russian army.
Hindenburg was buried in the Tannenberg memorial near Tannenberg, East Prussia (today: Stębark, Poland) against the wishes he had expressed during his life.
www.rebatesiworld.com /wiki3-Paul_von_Hindenburg   (5379 words)

  
 Axis History Forum :: View topic - Is This the Tannenberg Memorial?
In late January 1945, the coffins were placed aboard the cruiser Emden with full honors and draped in the flags of various regiments that fought at Tannenberg.
The Tannenberg dankmal or monument was located in the little town of Hohenstein in East Prussia.
The scanty ruins appear as an desolate island in the middle of a plowed farm field an is not at all obvious to the novice
forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=51659   (810 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Against the Stream: Growing Up Where Hitler Used to Live: Books: Anna Elisabeth Rosmus,Imogen Von ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
ANNA ELISABETH ROSMUS is the recipient of numerous awards for her struggle against bigotry and anti-Semitism, including the Conscience in Media Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Sarnat Prize from the Anti-Defamation League, and the Holocaust Survivors and Friends' Holocaust Memorial Award.
IMOGEN VON TANNENBERG is director of translations at the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation established by Steven Spielberg.
Imogen von Tannenberg is some kind of genius.
www.amazon.ca /Against-Stream-Growing-Where-Hitler/dp/1570034907   (425 words)

  
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PPC Hindenburg Tannenberg memorial with Hohensteinn Tannenburg SST 7-29-1936
Munich PPC of Hitler's House, tempel for the fallen of 1923, and the Brown House.
PPC of the Tannenburg memorial, the entrance to the Hindenburg tomb.
www.reichauctions.com /obersalzberg.htm   (835 words)

  
 Death of Reich President von Hindenburg (August 1934) - Biografie Willy Brandt
At the same time he has the soldiers of the Reich Army swear their oath in future to him personally and no longer to the constitution.
In a solemn ceremony several days later, von Hindenburg is buried at the Tannenberg Memorial in Hohenstein (East Prussia).
The memorial, constructed in 1927, commemorates Hindenburg’s victory over the Russian Army in the First World War.
www.willy-brandt.org /bwbs_biografie/Death_of_Reich_President_von_Hindenburg_B1213.html   (127 words)

  
 War memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liberty Memorial, America's National World War I Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri
Using current technology an international project is currently archiving all war graves and memorials to create a virtual memorial - see The British War Memorial Project for further details.
Unsurprisingly, war memorials can sometimes be politically controversial.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_memorial   (791 words)

  
 The Sword of Justice & Other Stuff by The Valkyrie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
You have a little more than a year to get it done, because the Democratic federal administration in 2008 will want to get started tearing down that temporary memorial to the idiocy of the Bush years.
One country's war memorial honors the valiant dead who fought victoriously against the dead honored by another country's war memorial.
Will there be a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died in the current U.S. interference in a civil war, a war in which we might've helped broker peace or in which we might've offered humanitarian aid?
nordicjustice.blogstream.com   (1481 words)

  
 Axis History Forum :: View topic - I Found the Tannenberg Memorial!
Amazing that somethng that is "not there" can be so clearly seen in a satillite photo (when the trees cooperate).
The fir mountain monument was blown up and cleared by Polish engineer teams 1952/53, whereby a part of the stones with the building of a memory monument in Olsztyn - all stone use found.
Recently (2004) the homeland circle municipality speaks a Mausoleum with representatives of the city high stone to open the grave chamber Hindenburgs in the Hindenburgturm and therein for the Germans pleased in the fir mountain battle to furnish Russian and Polish soldiers.
forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?p=983067   (440 words)

  
 Hatred   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
According to Ray Cowdery, Hitler rarely missed an opportunity to visit war memorials, even when a photographer was not present.
Tannenberg Memorial near Hohenstein, East Prussia, during the state funeral for President Paul von Hindenburg
This Christian cross glorifies the memory of the Nazi Leo Schlageter, a martyr for the German cause.
www.odinsvolk.ca /Hatred.htm   (4366 words)

  
 Google Earth Community: ex-Tannenberg Memorial
Olsztynek was created on the land of Prussian tribes conquered by the Teutonic Knights.
The town outlived a battle of Tannenberg, Tatarian and Swedish devastations, Napoleon s wars, epidemics, fires, and in 19 century began to develop itself.
During World War I a famous battle, called the second battle of Tannenberg, took place just near Olsztynek.
bbs.keyhole.com /ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/339930   (123 words)

  
 Plans for 30 January 1943
In memory of the blood sacrifices of the movement, party leaders and leaders of the party's divisions will lay wreaths at graves, similar to what is done on 9 November.
In memory of those who fell in the present war and in the World War, Gauleiter Koch or his delegate will lay down the Führer's wreath at the Tannenberg Memorial.
In every city and smaller community, the local group leader of the NSDAP should lay wreaths at public war memorials (not regimental memorials), in honored memory of those who fell for Germany.
www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/30jan1943.htm   (9888 words)

  
 What are these medals? - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums
The ribbon of the first is not correct for the medal, its the ribbon of the Austrian 14-18 medal.
The second item is a commemorative for fund-raising for the "Reichsehrenmal", or national memorial, at Tannenberg, at which Field Marshal von Hindenburg was interred in 1934.
It was blown up by retreating Wehrmacht units late in WW2.
www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=176895   (222 words)

  
 First World War.com - Encyclopedia of World War I - T
Talaat Pasha, Mehmed - Rationale for War (Memoirs)
Tannenberg, Battle of - Footage of Russian Prisoners
Tannenberg, Battle of - Summary by von Hindenburg
www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/t.htm   (354 words)

  
 RO_Tannenberg (I need help!) - Red Orchestra Forums
I am currently making a map of the Tannenberg Monument.
Did a little searching, here are a few more details on the Tannenberg Memorial:
From the pictures though it looks like the memorial was in more of a field than a forest.
www.redorchestragame.com /forum/showthread.php?t=12400   (644 words)

  
 Alpventures® Gift Shop: Ruins of the Reich (Video Series)
Ruins of Paul von Hindenburg's Neudeck estate and the Tannenberg national memorial.
Hitler's mountaintop retreat at Berchtesgaden including his Berghof Chalet and "Eagle's Nest" Tea house and the security area known as the Obersalzberg.
Highlights include the historic D-Day landing sites at Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword Beache monuments and memorials.
www.alpventures.com /reich.html   (317 words)

  
 Poland – pictures - List of Items - MSN Encarta
Poland – pictures - List of Items - MSN Encarta
German soldiers in trenches stand by their machine guns during the Battle of Tannenberg.
Germany and Russia fought the battle in August 1914.
encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210131956_1/Battle_of_Tannenberg.html   (33 words)

  
 Ruins of the Reich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Viewers are taken on a fascinating journey of the former monuments, rally grounds, buildings and historic sites that played key roles in Hitler's Nazi Empire.
and now tour of the Tannenberg Memorial, Hindenburg's Neudeck Estate, The Maginot Line, The Atlantic Wall gun Batteries and U-boat Sub Bunkers.
Also featured are Hitler's campaign headquarters, Wolfsschanze and
www.historyquestvideo.com /Ruins.htm   (124 words)

  
 rare 1934 Nazi photo book Tannenberg
RARE 1934 NAZI PHOTO BOOK ON The 7-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches photo book was published as a remembrance book for the German people and printed 1934 from the Reimar Hobbing Verlag in Berlin.
The 76 pages hardcover book in very good to mint condition contains a lot of excellent photos from the grand opening of the Tannenberg memorial with marching SS and S.A., high rank Nazis (a lot of Hitler of course), Hindenburg, flags, etc.!
RARE 1934 NAZI PHOTO BOOK ON (for airmail shipping worldwide please add $15.00)
www.od43.com /Tannenberg_1934.html   (161 words)

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