12/30/2023 0 Comments Wwi map tannenberg battle![]() On the road in northern Poland – Searching for Tannenberg These were places I returned to on multiple occasions. I had been in this state of mind before in Lviv, Pecs, Transylvania and Carnuntum. ![]() While my travel companion and I had only a single day to discover as much of Tannenberg as possible, I knew this was just the start of something that was likely to go on for years. ![]() Surely there were remnants of the battle hidden in the woods or half buried in the sandy soil. There had to be more needles in the haystack. Anything seemed not only possible, but probable. Confidence can be contagious, and I suddenly had a burst of it. Here was an opportunity to string together successes. Now I knew finding more places associated with Tannenberg was in my immediate future. I was experiencing the adrenaline rush from visiting two obscure and long sought after sites in a single morning. After finally making it to the Tannenberg Memorial and the spot where General Alexander Samsonov shot himself on the final day of the battle, I felt an uncontrollable urge to find other sites associated with Tannenberg. The power of a historic place when combined with information and imagination is a recipe for magic in its purest form. This is the equivalent for me of needle and vein. To find a place in history that I can mentally make my own. I just need something obscure, something historical, something that brings the past back to life and makes me feel a connection to it. I can never pull the needle out of my arm.
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