The Brutal Battle of Hürtgen Forest 🪖 | WW2 Battlefield From October 1944 to February 1945, heavy fighting raged in the Hürtgen Forest between the U.S. Army and the German Wehrmacht. American soldiers later called it the “Death Factory” or the “Bloody Forest.” Around 35,000 soldiers lost their lives in this devastating battle. On 12 September 1944, U.S. forces liberated the first German town from Nazi rule: Roetgen, just across the Belgian border. Their next objective was to push rapidly toward

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