HIST 387 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Serbian Campaign Of World War I, Strawberry Lane, Borage
28 Sep 2018
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Germans defeated russians at the battle of tannenberg. As he was moving against serbia, germans demanded he also attack. Austria-hungarian army was not equipped with the same kind of guns the. Spoke 10 different languages within the army, german was the language of command. Lose 20,000 men in a number of days and are pushed out of serbian territories by a small force. Fortresses - lemberg and przemysl (lost fortress towns) Lots killed and many prisoners of war (almost half a million of their men are wiped out) Germans - easterners and westerners debate for 1915. German strategy is to put their energy into the east as much as possible. Taking forces away from the west and coordinating with the austro- Want to use this offensive to push the russians back as far as possible. By the end of the summer, the russians have lost over 1 million men (lost. 1 million also in 1914), they lost galicia.
