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fear of forcing them to the Vistula before Samsonov could crush them.
The Germans, however, saw at once that he could not reach any position
in time to attack the German rear before the expected destruction of
Sam-
sonov was complete. Relieved, they concentrated at once on
engineering that destruction.
Later that morning, as the German commanders were returning to
headquarters from a conference at a corps headquarters, they stopped at
a railway station in Montovo for news. A signalman handed Hoffmann
still another Russian intercept—also in clear. Samsonov had sent it to
the cipherless XIII Corps at 6 a.m. It was a long dispatch, and
Hindenburg and Ludendorff had already driven off when Hoffmann got it
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:
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