The battle of Hürtgen along the Siegfired Line from 1944 to 1945 is one of the greatest myths of World War II. It was the longest battle on German soil, known as well as the "Verdun in the Eifel". The largest American defeat in Europe ever. Even the official US-military history speaks of Hürtgen Forest as a "black-green ocean of forest, in which Hänsel and Gretel had lost their way".
