It was the fight that made a national hero out of German commander Paul von Hindenburg, after his forces crushingly overcame the Russians. Now, 100 years on from the crucial Battle of Tannenberg, some ...

Erect and martial, President Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg arrived at Tannenberg, East Prussia, there to unveil a War memorial to the soldiers who fell in ...

The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 141st installment in ...

More than 300 people took part in the memorial event for the Battle of the Tannenberg Line in Ida-Viru County on Saturday to remember soldiers who died in World War II. For the first time in a long ...

SZKOTOWO, Poland (AP) — About 200 history enthusiasts from across Europe have gathered on a hilly area in Poland to reconstruct the Battle of Tannenberg, an engagement between the Russian and German ...

On July 30, chaplains from the Estonian Defense Forces laid wreaths at the memorial on Grenadier Hill and the monument to the fallen Red Army soldiers in Vaivara, Ida-Viru County, to commemorate the ...

Allied with France and Britain, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander, agreed to help relieve the French, under attack from Germany, with an offensive in East Prussia. This required mobility and ...