Military Leaders of World War I: Official and Private Papers of Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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The materials reproduced in this collection consist of letters and other papers of Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt (1866-1936), prominent German military strategist of World War I. After World War I he was considered the "father" of the army of the German Republic. From 1933-1935 he served as an adviser to Chiang Kai-shek, and following Seeckt's advice, the Kuomingtang built three thousand "turtle shell" forts linked by a series of roads while at the same time pursuing a scorched earth policy around the forts. It was Seeckt's tactics that led to a series of defeats suffered by the Chinese Communists that finally in October 1934 led to the famous Long March.


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