St. Vith - Battle of the Bulge

Here are a couple photos for our military history trip about the begining of the Battle of the Bulge. Basically, i live about 30 minutes from the "West Wall", or the "Sigfried line." Its the line of defense the Germans built that we had to break through to defeat the Nazis. Anyways, here where I live is near where the Americans kind of stopped to regroup when Hitler launched the attack to try and split Allied forces. So we went and walked through the woods of the Hurtgen forest(famous for the very bloody fighting and amazingly harsh cold). The day we went was absolutely freezing and as you can see, i forgot my coat!! You can see the dragon teeth, meant to stop tanks, they are all over the place. And basically you can just drive through the countryside, park and walk into the woods, and you'll see fox holes everywhere. They are still finding artifacts today, hell, they just dug up a MIA US soldier last year!! The photo of my next to the monument is for the Malmaday massacre. It was when an SS battalion had over 100 US POWs in a field, and then for no reason shot them all with machine guns. The whole area is kind of amazing now, since it is just regular towns and cow fields...hard to imagine what happened there.