Soldier Fabian von Strachwitz reports on the fighting at the Forsthaus:
"After reaching the forester's house, we got water and food there. Just as we were about to move on, enemy infantry fighting vehicles suddenly appeared. We quickly took up positions on both sides of the forest path, as well as on the edge of the forest or on the edge of a large forest meadow. Enemy mobs made it impossible for us to crawl back at first. Some of the riflemen now returned fire, others tried to fight the enemy armored vehicles with bazookas. Sergeant Grüssinger, who was about to throw a hand grenade and was hit in the chest, was the first to be hit in the hail of enemy shells. Within the 30-minute battle, the riflemen Schober and Volk on both sides of the forest road were shot in the head. A short time later, the gunner Wilke fell just as he was about to fire a bazooka. While trying to help a comrade, the shooter Bauknecht received a fatal wound. Rifleman Friedrich von Loesch fired the entire magazine of his MPi at the enemy and then collapsed, hit by shrapnel. Two comrades pulled him into the cover of some trees, but he died there a short time later. Two comrades were wounded even more easily and we were able to take them with us. We reached the last tank, which had already driven ahead, halfway down the slope. He fired his last three shells and was then blown up by the disembarking crew due to the lack of petrol. With 8 men I finally reached the Hochweg and found 3 men there who were waiting for us. The other comrades had already moved on in the direction of Sugenheim, from where the noise of battle could be heard."
Sergeant M. Grüssinger remained in the common grave until June 1946, when his relatives took him back to his home town of Rheinstetten-Forchheim near Karlsruhe. The other five who fell remained in the tomb. The grave at the edge of the forest near the Dornheimer forester's house is constantly maintained and visitors come to this site again and again. It is probably the only soldier's grave in the area that survived, while the others were leveled over time after the fallen were reburied in military cemeteries.