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)

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Gerd

January 19, 2017

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A 10 m long chain of a Sherman tank, which was installed here after the end of the war to improve the way.

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September 10, 2020

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One of the numerous traces that remind of the terrible fighting in 1944 in the Hürtgenwald.

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Elevation 360 m

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Friday 23 January

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

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