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all. He sped after them in his own car, overtook them, and, as the two
automobiles jounced side by side along the rutted Polish road, handed it
over. Hindenburg stopped his car, and the officers studied it:
... On 25 August the 2nd Army proceeds to the Allenstein-
Osterode line; the main strength of the army corps occupies: XIII
Corps the Gimmendorf-Kurken line; XV Corps Nadrau-Paulsgut;
XXIII Corps Michalken-Gr. Gardienne .... The I Corps to remain in
District 5, to protect army's left flank ....
It was, in fact, nothing less than a full roundup of the situation as
Samsonov saw it, together with the most detailed and explicit moves to
be followed by his army. It gave the Germans a knowledge of enemy
intentions unprecedented in the whole of military history. It was like
reading the mind of a chess opponent, like playing blind-man's bluff
without the blindfold. It was almost impossible to lose.
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