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Kreis Düren
Hürtgenwald

Memorial Cross for Fallen Soldiers in the Hürtgenwald Forest

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Hürtgenwald

Memorial Cross for Fallen Soldiers in the Hürtgenwald Forest

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Memorial Cross for Fallen Soldiers in the Hürtgenwald Forest

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    January 27, 2023

    At this point I would like to thank the fallen allies who gave their lives so that my children and I can live here in peace and freedom today. May you have found a place of rest in this hell. More than a minute's silence is needed here, unbelievable what these people have done for us!!!!!

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      October 27, 2015

      The memorial cross commemorates the soldiers of an American machine-gun unit whose mortal remains were found only 55 years after the fighting there.

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        December 28, 2017

        In the forest there is a commemorative cross with a helmet in memory of a soldier who died in the war,

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          Location: Hürtgenwald, Kreis Düren, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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