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Encyclopedia > German Eighth Army

The German Eighth Army (German: 8.Armee Oberkommando) was a World War I and World War II field army. World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ...

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World War I

At the outbreak of World War I, the 8.Armee was stationed in East Prussia to defend against the expected Russian Attack, Plan 19. After the scrappy Battle of Gumbinnen, 8.Armee commander General der Infanterie Maximilian von Prittwitz ordered a retreat. This move resulted in his replacement by Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, with Erich Ludendorff as the Army's chief of Staff. East Prussia (German: Ostpreu en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. ... Maximilian von Prittwitz was a German general of Silesian descent. ... Paul von Hindenburg President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg (full name Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) (October 2, 1847 – August 2, 1934) was a German Field Marshal and statesman. ... General Erich Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff (sometimes given incorrectly as Erich von Ludendorff) (April 9, 1865 – December 20, 1937, Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany) was a German Army officer, noted as a general during World War I. Ludendorff was born in Kruszewnia near Posen, Prussia (now PoznaÅ„, Poland). ...


Under it's new command, the Army was responsible for the victories at the Battle of Tannenberg (1914) and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes. 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 Eighth Army fought from August 17 to September 2, 1914. ... During World War I, there was: First Battle of the Masurian Lakes, September 1914 Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, February 1915 This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


Commanders

Maximilian von Prittwitz was a German general of Silesian descent. ... Paul von Hindenburg President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg (full name Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) (October 2, 1847 – August 2, 1934) was a German Field Marshal and statesman. ... Fritz Wilhelm Theodor Karl von Below (1853-1918) was a commander in the German Army during the First World War. ...

World War II

The Eighth Army was activated on August 1, 1939 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command. First seeing service in Poland, the army was later reorganised into the German Second Army for the invasion of France, before later being reactivated as being part of Operation Barbarossa in Russia. The army was involved in the defence of Hungary and Austria before finally surrending. August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Johannes Blaskowitz (July 10, 1883 - February 5, 1948) was a German general during World War II. During the Polish September Campaign he commanded the German Eighth Army. ... The German Second Army (German: ) was a World War II field army. ... Original German plan Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the German codename for Nazi Germanys invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on June 22, 1941. ...


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First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Gumbinnen, 1914 (480 words)
Signalling the first major offensive on the Eastern Front, and following an initial action by the German Eighth Army at Stalluponen on 17 August 1914, the Battle of Gumbinnen was initiated by Eighth Army's commander General von Prittwitz, during the early hours of 20 August.
Francois, aware that the German centre and right were in disarray, was similarly obliged to authorise a retreat; in the process the Russians managed to capture 6,000 prisoners during the German retreat.
Helmuth von Moltke, the German Chief of Staff in Berlin, was furious at Prittwitz's capitulation.
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The German Army minimized the same problem by a three-tiered system of units, consisting of twenty regular army corps with a relatively low proportion of well-trained recent reservists, fourteen reserve corps composed of regular cadres and large numbers of reservists, and numerous smaller Landwehr or militia formations.
The German infiltration tactics of 1918 can be summarized under four headings: Bruckmüller artillery preparation; the combined arms assault or storm battalion; rejection of the linear advance in favor of bypassing enemy centers of resistance;, and attacks to disorganize the enemy rear area.
The German spring offensives of 1918 were the most obvious example of mobility returning to the battlefield, but in fact all armies in 1918 were better able to attack than they had been in the preceding three years.
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