Someone told me : victims of war
We stood in the garden behind his house and he showed me where the German soldiers lay in Hintgebësch and Schankegriecht and how they tried to get to the other side of the valley past his house. And how finally the American came from Schweecherdaul and placed one of their tanks against the front of his house. And how they shot a German soldier near the chapel. And how more American soldiers came with more and greater weapons and fired into the German lines for about two hours until there was no more reply.
“Ech weess et nach wi wann et gëschter gewiescht wär.”
He told me then that American soldiers came to take away the dead and that they forgot some they didn’t see under the snow. One of them was found weeks later, his face and hands all eaten by raven and fox. His place of death is still known by older inhabitants of the Préizerdaul as “beim Preiss” This happened during the Rundstedt-Offensive, on 22.December 1944 and more details can be read in (among others) the book of René Fisch.
The hike of about 4miles leads you first to the place “beim Preiss”(=WP3) and then to a small memorial for a young boy who died after the war when he was playing with a grenade (=WP4). Between WP3 and WP4, you walk straight through the German lines; going back to WP6, you are on the edge of the German lines and you can imagine the American coming from western directions... Here you may see some hollows; these are the remains of the German trenches. You may also come along a rather big fox-earth.
Parking Area: N49°48.458 E 05°56.261
The number of holy crosses you can see here = S !! Don't consider the small movable ones inside !!
The last letter of the name of the tree changed into its number = T
WP1: N 49°48.5(T-2)S E 05°55.T(3*S)(2*S) Mixing the colours of the sign gives you a new colour and its last letter changed into its number = R As the farmer has ploughed away the path between the fields, you have to walk through whatever grows there.... (200 meters).
WP2: N 49°48.(3*S)(S+1)(S+2) E 05°55.(54*R)-53 add together the digits of the B.P. = E If you want an easy life, don't go cross country to WP3 but use the rather large way which leads to the reference point. Enter the forest here and after some meters of grass and some thistles, you can see the ancient path and you head more or less straight to WP3
WP3: N 49°49.0((8*E)-1) E 05°55.(T-1)T(T+1) Look for a small container with K items inside ? = K SPOILER
WP4: N 49°49.SK2 E 05°55.5(9*K) add together all the even numbers _ _= M
WP5: N49°49.((40*M)-T) E 05°5*E.((48*M)+2) How is this Christ fixed to the cross? by his hands, his feet and his head: W=0 by his hands and his feet: W=6 by his hands: W=1
Head west and take the easy way down to WP6: N 49°48.KK0 E 05°55.(W+S)(M-S)T How many wings do you see? = L
Final: N 49°48.S(L+3)(T-L) E 05°56.(5*L)(E-K)