TANNENBERG DENKMAL / OLSZTYNEK

A lot of photos of Tannenberg monument.
September 27, 1933. In the interwar period a monument was erected at Hohenstein then in German East Prussia (now Olsztynek in the Polish voivodship of Warmia and Mazury) to the celebrate the late August 1914 WWI battle in which the German Army surrounded and annihilated the Russian Second Army commanded by General Samsonov. In part the battle took place in the vicinity of the village of Tannenberg, the location where some 500 years earlier the combined Polish-Lithuanian forces had dealt a crushing defeat to the Teutonic Knights, a German Military Order. The 1914 victory became known in Germany as the Second Battle of Tannenberg. On this latter occasion the German victory had been total: of the 150,000 strong Russian Second Army 92,000 had been taken prisoner and another 30,000 were killed or wounded. Only around 10,000 of Samsonov's men had escaped. In the face of the defeat, Samsonov walked off into the woods and committed suicide.

The concept of erecting a monument to celebrate the 1914 victory was first advanced in 1919 by the Association of the Veterans of East Prussia. Subsequently, a contest was staged for a design of the monument. It resulted in the submission of over 400 projects and was won by the brothers Walter and Johann Kruger, architects from Berlin.

In 1924, on the 10th anniversary of the battle, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, who had commanded the German troops in the battle, took part in the laying of the monument's foundation stone, a ceremony attended by some 60 thousand people, primarily veterans of WWI. The monument was built in the period 1925-27. Hindenburg, who in 1916 became Chief of Staff of the German Army. He became President of Germany after the war and as such he appointed Adolf Hitler to be its Chancellor in 1933.

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[anilorakgoldini]

Ciekawe ze świątynie nazizmu i komunizmu są tak podobne. Dobrze ze wyburzono to szkaradziejstwo. Niestety PKIN nadal straszy w sercu Warszawy.

[rkphotoPL]

Bardzo trafna uwaga, sporo materialu budowlanego (plyty granitowe etc.) z mauzoleum Tannenberg posluzyly do budowy Pałacu Kultury i Nauki w Warszawie.

[mojnowynick1]

Russian never were our brothers. They've made much more evil than Germans. After war Poland wasn't free. Our "brothers" destoyed Polisch state. We got back independent only in 1989 - after 44 years from end of the war.

[lonewulf44]

Wonderful construction photos ... thanks for posting. So sad it's gone ...

[POLSKARZECZPOSPOLIT]

@ronaldpk2000 brawo dzieci z gimnazjum walczące o życie nazywa się imperialistami jak się nie jest Polakiem albo Polką to tak potem się pierdoli te farmazony antypolskie

[POLSKARZECZPOSPOLIT]

@ronaldpk2000 żenada porównywać nazizm z 2 rzeczpospolitą która walczyła z sovietami walka o przetrwanie nazywasz imperializmem może walka z nazizmem i komunizmem nazwiesz Polskim imperializmem

chociaż koment z roku nie mogłem tego zostawić

[strzaloslaw]

@carinhall1

Aber durch die Deutschen.

[seanyboyo1969]

@mironowak sorry there i thought you where making the statement about poland been biologicaly wiped out, i agree with all you said, poles where responsible for what happend to themselves they pushed germany into action by their wish to keep german terrotary and people under their control.

[seanyboyo1969]

@mironowak show me the proof of this statement the nazis kept meticuelous records of all the regimes goals regarding occupied terrotries, ive never came accross this one ? also you should look at what hitler offered to poland before ww2 they could keep gotenhafen but danzig and direct accsess to east prussia must be allowed for germany, poles turned this down and said danzig must be under polish domain, germany helped free poland from russia in ww1 and the poles attacked germany in 1919-20

[lorrainesvw]

This is so neat to see. General Samsonov is my great grandfather from my fathers side of the family. The battle of Tannenberg is a sad part of history but I am proud to be directly related to him.

[historatia]

@djole81 Too many of all combattants!

[ronaldpk2000]

Niesamowite, przypomina on bardzo polski "Denkmal" lwowskich "Orlat" na cmentarzu Lyczakowskim. Ta sama apoteoza smierci za ojczyzne, lwy i inne symbole imperializmu, narzedzie manipulacji mas aby sluzyly jako darmowe mieso armatnie.

I zeby potem ze zburzonego monumentu w Tannenbergu zbudowac symbol totalitaryzmu - PKiN w Wwie, ktory straszy do dzisiaj? To chyba ironia historii.