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    "title": "Tannenberg",
    "subtitle": "Erich Ludendorff and the defence of the German eastern border in 1914",
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    "description": "<p>Tannenberg; looking back, this town and battle symbolise an atypical<br />episode in the First World War: the war of movement. In reality the<br />war quickly turned into a trench war, such as we knew it in the West.<br />With the battle at Tannenberg and the ones that followed, which all had<br />a quite positive outcome for Germany, Ludendorff had left his mark.<br />is untimately brought the duo Von Hindenburg - Ludendorff to the<br />absolute military top of Germany. As from 1917 they, together with the<br />emperor, dictated the course of the war. Ludendorff left such a heavy mark<br />on everything that people also referred to it as 'Ludendor 's dictatorship'.<br />Not only did he interfere in military matters, but also in politics, the war<br />economy, propaganda, and he played a decisive role in major war decisions<br />in other areas, such as diplomacy and the submarine war. In the end the<br />war became identified with Ludendorff , who had to step aside when the<br />unavoidable defeat came in 1918.<br />is was a bitter disappointment for Ludendorff . He never got over it and<br />it was the beginning of his alienation from imperial Germany, in which he<br />had grown up, and the start of his political career, which was soon to be<br />marked by the 'Dolchstosslegende'. His role in the early Hitler movement<br />and his participation in the Hitler-Putsch in 1923 have coloured the view<br />on Ludendorff 's character. Because of this we have lost touch with the curious<br />history of Tannenberg and the battles that followed until the winter<br />of 1915, which were of great historical signi cance.  ese battles weren't<br />decisive.  they didn't bring victory to Germany.  e victory at Tanneberg<br />did, however, save East Prussia from a Russian invasion in 1914. When at<br />the end of the Second World War the Russian Army approached the battle<br />memorial, German engineers blew it up.<br />With this short monograph the author has tried to reproduce the history<br />of the battle at Tannenberg. Almost 70 years after Ludendorff passed<br />away and almost 90 years after the battle, it will help us to remember the<br />difficult genesis of Europe as we know it now. </p>",
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