70,000 killed and wounded,[9] 30,000[19]–45,000 prisoners
Russian Estimate: about 60,000 died, wounded and prisoners[20][21] Staff of the Russian NW front: 100,000 men, including 50,000 prisoners[22]
The First Battle of the Masurian Lakes was a German offensive in the Eastern Front 2–16 September 1914, during the Russian invasion of East Prussia. It took place only days after the Battle of Tannenberg where the German Eighth Army encircled and destroyed the Russian Second Army. Using the rapid movements aided by the East Prussian railway network, the Eighth Army reformed in front of the spread-out Russian First Army and pushed them back across their entire front, eventually ejecting it from Germany. Further progress was hampered by the arrival of the Russian Tenth Army on the Germans' right flank.
By the conclusion of the battle, the Imperial German Army had destroyed the Second Army and shattered the First in a series of actions over only a few weeks. However, Russia had the largest army in the world, so the Russian army very quickly restored its losses in manpower, and after a couple of weeks the Russians launched a new offensive in East Prussia.[23]
^Sanitaetsbericht ueber das Deutsche Heer (Deutsche Feldund Besatzungsheer) im Weltkriege 1914/1918. Bd. III. B., 1934. Taffel 11; Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918. Bd. 2. p. 358; Bracht R. Unter Hindenburg von Tannenberg bis Warschau. p.35
^including troops against the Second Russian Army
^С. Г. Нелипович: Два похода. Борьба за Восточную Пруссию в августе-октябре 1914 года, 2020, p. 77-78, 110
^not including the Second Russian Army, on 1.09.1914 116,791 men, 143 machine guns, 435 guns
^Sanitaetsbericht ueber das Deutsche Heer, bd. II, Berlin 1938, p. 495, 508
^С.Г. Нелипович, Два похода, 2020, p. 98
^David Eggenberger, An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles, 2012, p. 270
^Dennis Cove,Ian Westwell, History of World War I, 2002, p. 157
^ abSpencer C. Tucker. World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. ABC-CLIO. 2014. P. 1048
^Timothy C. Dowling. Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond. ABC-CLIO. 2014. P. 509
^Prit Buttar. Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914. Osprey Publishing. 2014. P. 239
^"First World War.com - Battles - The First Battle of the Masurian Lakes, 1914". www.firstworldwar.com.
^Tucker S. The Great War, 1914-1918. Routledge. 2002. P. 44
^Gray, Randall; Argyle, Christopher (1990–1991). Chronicle of the First World War. New York: Oxford. p. vol. I, 282.
^David Eggenberger, (2012), p. 270
^Christine Hatt, The First World War, 1914-18, 2007, p. 15
^Roger Chickering, Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918, 2004, p. 26
^С.Г. Нелипович, Два похода, 2020, p. 97.
^F. Kagan, R. Higham. The Military History of Tsarist Russia. Springer, 2016. P. 230
^"Крах австро-германского "блицкрига". Восточно-Прусская операция 1914 г. Ч. 6. Потери сторон". btgv.ru.
^Alfred Knox Major General with the Russian Army 1914-1917 (1921) p.90
^Головин Н. Н., Из истории компании 1914 г. на русском фронте, Прага, 1926, volume. 1, p. 384, 408
^С.Г. Нелипович, Два похода, 2020, p. 107-208
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