122,000 killed, wounded, or captured. And that was just one battle.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Tannenberg-World-...
The Russians lost 30,000 killed or wounded, while the Germans sustained a total of only 13,000 casualties. Some 92,000 Russian prisoners were taken, two and a half army corps annihilated, and the remaining half of Samsonov’s army severely shaken.
Moreover it has mostly uprooted the surviving rest of society.
That trauma has dwarfed WWI and almost erased it from public memory.
122,000 killed, wounded, or captured. And that was just one battle.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Tannenberg-World-...
The Russians lost 30,000 killed or wounded, while the Germans sustained a total of only 13,000 casualties. Some 92,000 Russian prisoners were taken, two and a half army corps annihilated, and the remaining half of Samsonov’s army severely shaken.