Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Cologne District
Kreis Düren
Nideggen
Sherman tank track in Hürtgenwald
Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Cologne District
Kreis Düren
Nideggen
Sherman tank track in Hürtgenwald
Sherman tank track in Hürtgenwald
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This Highlight is in a protected area
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Location: Nideggen, Kreis Düren, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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On the slope in the direction of Kommerscheidt there is still the tank chain of a Sherman, which the escaping 707th Tank Battalion had to leave behind like all other vehicles.
Source: rureifel-tourismus.de/wandern/wanderland-rureifel/a-Kall-Trail
(Link to "KALL-TRAIL [66]" AS PDF)translated by
•October 2, 2021
A 10 m long chain of a Sherman tank, which was installed here after the end of the war to improve the way.
translated by•January 19, 2017
One of the numerous traces that remind of the terrible fighting in 1944 in the Hürtgenwald.
translated by•September 10, 2020
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