GC4918K Massegraf Schumann's Eck (Traditional Cache) in Luxembourg created by FossiBear

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Hidden : 4/3/2013

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Monument of the "MASSEGRAF" were you'll find the cache on the monument itself! Good Luck!

On June 12, 2004, the “Sentier du Souvenir“ (“Trail of Remembrance”) and the adjacent monument in remembrance of all soldiers who died in these woods during the Battle of the Bulge in winter 1944-1945, were both inaugurated.
The struggle around the important strategic crossroads at ‘Café Schumann’ cost the lives of thousands of soldiers on both sides. A bomb crater, in which 157 fallen German soldiers had been temporarily buried after the battle, became known thereafter as the “mass grave”. Local eyewitnesses testified that several hundred soldiers of both nations had been buried here. Colonel Peale, Commander of the 1^st Battalion, 101^st Infantry Regiment, 26^th Infantry Division, and Col. Dellert, Commander of the 3^rd Battalion, 101^st Infantry Regiment, 26^th Infantry Division, confirmed that the bodies of the dead soldiers had been assembled during the Battle of the Bulge before being transferred to various military cemeteries.
The same day, the US veteran and former Private First Class Harry W. Harvey, 90^th US Infantry Division, and the German veteran Erhard Mitzinnek, 9. Volksgrenadierdivision, representing their killed - in action - and surviving comrades, shook hands as a sign of reconciliation.
The bronze plaque in Luxembourg language reads: ”A mass grave was located on this spot”.
This memorial certainly is unique in Luxembourg as it reminds us of the fallen American - as well as of the dead German soldiers.

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