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Story
On the afternoon of 12 September 1944, the small municipality of Roetgen, located about 20 kilometres southeast of Aac...
How many soldiers died is not known; there were some 10.000 German and 30.000 American dead in the Huertgen Forest battl...
Cemetery
In the late 1930s the monks of Mariawald Abbey came into conflict with the Nazi regime and were evicted. During the batt...
Between September 1944 and February 1945 American and German soldiers faced each other directly in the pillboxes at the ...
On 12 September 1944, the first U.S. troops crossed the German border near the ancient city of Aachen, with units pushin...
Landmark
Due to its elevated position (193 metres), the plateau atop the Eyserbosweg offered the Allies a unique, direct view of ...
The German Military War Cemetery of Sandweiler is located near the town of Sandweiler, south-east of Luxembourg and less...
Audiospot
Saturday, 16 December 1944 marks the beginning of the last major offensive on the Western front – „The battle of the Bul...
Around 3,000 civilians and 36,000 soldiers died in the ‘Battle of the Bulge’. Many cities, towns and villages were destr...
November 1944. American troops fight to no end in the Hürtgen Forest, in impenetrable woods and incessant rain, facing h...
During the autumn and winter of 1944/45, a long and bloody battle took place in the Huertgen Forest. 3.001 mostly German...