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Why did Aleksandr Vasilyevich Samsonov advance into East Prussia during World War I?

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Early in World War I, when his army advanced into East Prussia (see Masuria ) in order to relieve German pressure on the French, it was virtually annihilated by German field marshal Hindenburg in the battle of Tannenberg (Aug., 1914).

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