Post-war Legacy
The battle is at the center of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel August 1914.
A German monument was completed in 1927. However, it was blown up by Germans during the retreat in January 1945.
Ludendorff would later revisit the battle site when naming his own political movement, the Tannenbergbund, formed in 1925.
The German film director Heinz Paul made a film Tannenberg about the battle, filmed in East Prussia in 1932.
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