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Tannenberg may refer to

  • Tannenberg, Saxony, a town in the district of Annaberg in the German state of Saxony
  • The German name for the village of Stębark in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
  • Battle of Tannenberg (1410) or Battle of Grunwald
  • Battle of Tannenberg (1914) in World War I
  • Battle of Tannenberg Line in World War II, fought in 1944 in Estonia
  • Tannenberg Memorial, commemorating the World War I battle
  • Operation Tannenberg, codename of an extermination action directed at the Polish people during World War II
  • Tannenbergbund, a far right German political society founded by the German Army general Erich Ludendorff in 1925
  • Tannenberg (minelayer), a WWII era German minelayer converted from civilian vessel, see List of World War II ships
  • Tannenberg (film), a 1932 Swiss-German War film
  • David Tannenberg, a Moravian organ builder
Tannenberg (film)

Tannenberg is a 1932 Swiss– German war film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Hans Stüwe, Käthe Haack and Jutta Sauer. The film is based on the 1914 Battle of Tannenberg during the First World War. It focuses on a German landowner Captan von Arndt and his family.

Usage examples of "tannenberg".

Because of the momentous results of the Battle of Tannenberg of which Gumbinnen was a preliminary, the episode of Rennenkampf’.

For these they exchanged their crusaders' wagons, and so it was in carriages with comfortable springs that they witnessed the second battle of Tannenberg, which was not fought at Tannenberg any more than the first.

Grandfather Vanya had gone to the front and fought against the Germans, but early in the war had been captured at the Battle of Tannenberg.