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GERMAN ARMY IN RUSSIA.

EX-PRISONERS OF WAR. MACKENSEN IN COMMAND. STAFF OFFICERS FROM BERLIN. By Telegraph Asaociation—Copyright. (Received 9.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. REVAL, Feb. 24. Numerous German ex-staff officers have gone to Moscow and joined the army which Field Marshal von Mackensen has formed out of German and. Australian exprisoners of war. Field-Marshal von Mackensen wag one of the most successful of the German generals on the Eastern front in the great war. ll© commanded the 11th German Army in the Galician campaign in 1915, and recaptured from the Russians thefortress of Przemysl. Later he took part in the Austro-German invasion of Russian Poland, which culminated in the capture of Warsaw. The following year he commanded the Ausoro-German armies which overran Rumania.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18334, 26 February 1923, Page 7

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GERMAN ARMY IN RUSSIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18334, 26 February 1923, Page 7

GERMAN ARMY IN RUSSIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18334, 26 February 1923, Page 7