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Given their superiority in numbers, could the Russian 1st and 2nd Armies have surrounded the Germans in East Prussia, rather than the other around? Once this has happened, a Russian advance towards Berlin is possible. In OTL after victory at Tannenberg over Samsonov's 2nd Army, the Germans also mauled Rennenkampf's 1st Army at the Masurian Lakes. Could we see a reverse of this further west, with a pursuing Russian force destroying the German rearguard as it retreated?
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