Battle in Hürtgenwald

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History Association Hürtgenwald

The forest and the death: Even decades after the war, there was hardly a spot in the Hürtgenwald, which did not bear any traces of the war - be it ordnance, mines, blown up bunkers, buried trenches or the remains of the estimated 60,000 soldiers of both Pages that had lost their lives here. "The dead were frozen in Hürtgen, and it was so cold that they froze with red faces," wrote US author and war correspondent Ernest Hemingway about the biggest debacle of US troops to date.

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