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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Gerd

March 18, 2017

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

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Oliver🌍

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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3. Private First Class Robert Cahow Memorial Site – View of the Kalltal Valley loop from Peterbachquellgebiet

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

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

1. Todtenbruch Soil Trail – Private First Class Robert Cahow Memorial Site loop from Vossenack

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3. Private First Class Robert Cahow Memorial Site – View of the Kalltal Valley loop from Peterbachquellgebiet

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