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North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Memorial to Robert G. Canfield and Robert Cahow in the Hürtgen Forest

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Memorial to Robert G. Canfield and Robert Cahow in the Hürtgen Forest

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Memorial to Robert G. Canfield and Robert Cahow in the Hürtgen Forest

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Cycling

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Gravel riding

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This Highlight is in a protected area

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Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

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

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Tips

September 5, 2022

Hiking

It is important that places like the ones hiked here in the Hürtgenwald, illustrated and partly described, keep alive the memory of the hardship, misery and suffering of that time, and thus a testimony to the horror of war and tyranny. This culture of commemoration and remembrance has an essential and – for every generation anew – important goal: admonishing people to PEACE.

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March 18, 2017

Hiking

The madness of the war becomes very clear at every turn.

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May 9, 2020

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Old positions and cover holes, as well as a memorial stone for two American and one German soldiers, whose skeletons were found during forest work in 1976, tell of killing …

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Elevation 460 m

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

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