- Hundreds of Russian prisoners of war march past captured gun carriages and German soldiers and into captivity in Germany. After their initial success in the invasion of East Prussia in August 1914, the Germans mounted a massive counter-offensive and destroyed a Russian army at the Battle of Tannenberg. Source: The Literary Digest History of the World War, Volume 7, 1919, 2.
Source: The Literary Digest History of the World War, Volume 7, 1919, 2.
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