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Hürtgen War Cemetery

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Kreis Düren

Hürtgenwald

Hürtgen War Cemetery

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

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3. View of the Hürtgenwald – Frog Fountain loop from Vossenack

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

March 5, 2018

Friedrich Lengfeld (born September 29, 1921 in Grunwald, Glatz district, Lower Silesia, † November 12, 1944 in Froitzheim) was a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht and company commander of the 2nd company of the Fusilier Battalion of the 275th Infantry Division. He died trying to save a wounded American soldier from a minefield.

A memorial stands in his honor at the Hürtgen Cemetery of Honor, which the veterans association of the 22nd US Infantry Division had erected on October 7, 1994 in honor of Lengfeld. In addition to the Karl-Heinz Rosch memorial in the Netherlands, this is probably the only known memorial for a German Wehrmacht soldier, which was erected by the opponents at the time.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Lengfeld

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JakobusPilger

September 25, 2021

As a memorial to the endless number of war dead, such places - usually referred to as "war graves" or "soldiers' cemetery", sometimes also "cemetery of honor" - are still very important today. "Now, Lord, let your servant go in peace, as you said." However, the many people buried here were by no means divorced in peace, but became victims of the war and an inhuman tyranny.

The most important and at the same time everlasting function of the soldiers' or honorary cemeteries or war cemeteries is therefore to keep the memory of this suffering alive and – every generation anew (!) – to remind people of the lasting preservation of peace.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

March 5, 2018

There are two war graves in the Hürtgenwald, one in Vossenack and one in Hürtgen.

In the area of the Northern Eifel, in which the two war graves are located, the All Souls' Day raged during the Second World War, in which many war casualties were lost on both the German and American sides.

In both cemeteries, not only the soldiers who died in the fighting in the Hürtgenwald were buried, but also those who died in the area. They had been rescued by many volunteers, including the former pioneer captain Julius Erasmus.

The war cemetery Hürtgen is located about 0.5 km outside of Hürtgen directly on the main road 399.

The Hürtgen military cemetery was built between 1950 and 1952 by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. The cemetery was planned by the garden architect Carl Ludwig Schreiber from Aachen. The so-called "comrades crosses" were erected on the graves. These are double crosses. The double rows of the graves are all aligned with the cross.

2,997 dead are buried at the Hürtgen war cemetery, of which 524 could not be identified.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsgräberstätten_im_Hürtgenwald

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

Hürtgen War Cemetery

1. View of the Hürtgenwald – View of the Hürtgenwald loop from Vossenack

2. Frog Fountain – View of the Hürtgenwald loop from Vossenack

3. View of the Hürtgenwald – Frog Fountain loop from Vossenack

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