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Uploaded by on Dec 2, 2008

ARMY.MIL - A forgotten battle of WWII is reborn in Germany thanks to the efforts of some re-enactors who find that playing the role of those who have gone before sheds new light on the simple but hard truths of being a Soldier.

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  • I know this forest. Still not all part are open for poblic. Everywhere collapsed trenches full of old ammunition, rusty helmets, blind shells etc etc. A lot of guys with metal detector are in this wood .. and some of them .. well .. not all leave the wood on their feet

  • Great video guys! Great initiative.

    I live near the Hürtgen and have visited the forest many many times. I still amazes me how beautiful it looks but also how scaring and cold it can be. Lets not forget the soldiers who have fallen in those dark cold months in 1944 and 1945.

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  • I just wanna puke when I hear the expression, well, we were fighting for freedom, Total bull shit.

  • there were more than 24,000 dead I can tell you that.

  • yanks lost more men than all of the losses of Vietnam in this one battle,Gee, I wonder why you never hear about it? Embarrassement perhaps?

  • I was on this event as a german wehrmacht soldier. Still at all the forest is really hard to fight in, we got still problem on this forest only when we start re-enacting it

  • hmm you rarely see ww2 dated footage that actually has voice in it

  • @Smalbop Ha HA HA !!!! you forget that the SS !!! the have shots in FRance 1941 and in the last jaers of the WWII - Black Solders !!!!! is that ok !!!

    Man a cann tell you a strory about that things becose - my Grandpa have see man bad things in This War !!! Bad THings !!!!

    live your live in free and in pace and harmony !! you and your Famelie

  • @barkahannibal

    The mass rapes and murdering of civilians committed in Italy and Germany by the north African mercenaries of France will indeed never been forgotten.

    Die Serienvergewaltigungen und Morde an Zivilisten in italien und Deutschland durch die nordafrikanischen Söldner Frankreichs werden sicher nie vergessen.

  • @barkahannibal

    Their glorious mass rapes and other atrocities committed during their advance behind the other allied troops in Italy and Germany will ever be remebered.

  • 34.000 americans and 12000 germans died in a battle to continue a war in wich the victors and the loosers were already clear

    lets look up to this example so we will never forget the cruelty and brutality of war

    and what it does to the people

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