Day trip Hurtgen Forest
"A battle that should never have been fought" says Westpoint today. In the mud-soaked forests of the Eifel the Americans lose more men than on D-Day in Normandy.
Travel in the Coach of Excellence from Cologne to Aachen-Brand.
View the Westwall
Continue via Zweifall to Germeter
Visit a blown up PAK bunker
Continue to Vossenach
Visit the museum of Vossenach and the heavily battled church
Kall Trail and Mestrenger Mill
Continue to Simonskall and visit the German cemetary overlooking the battlefield
Travel to Hurtgen and Bergstein. View the Bergstein with its artillery observation point
Continue to Schmidt and Kommerscheidt
Travel to the Roer dam and return to Cologne