page_title: Liberation Route Europe
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Liberation Route Europe / The Route / Germany
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Hürtgenwald, schweres Infanteriegeschütz Scherl: Schwere Infanteriegeschütze im Wald von Hürtgen bei der Abwehr eines der zahllosen nordamerikanischen Angriffe PK-Kriegsberichter Jäger [Bei Düren, Wald von Hürtgenwald.- Schweres Infanteriegeschütz beim Feuern, Aufnahme am 22.11.1944]
context_page_description: Liberation Route Europe is an international remembrance trail that connects the main regions along the advance of the Western Allied Forces toward the liberation of Europe and final stage of the Second World War. The route started in 2008 as a Dutch regional initiative in the Arnhem-Nijmegen area and then developed into a transnational route that was officially inaugurated in Arromanches on June 6, 2014, during the Normandy D-day commemorations. The route goes from Southern England, through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands to Berlin, in Germany and then extends to the Czech Republic and Poland. The southern route starts in Italy. As a form of remembrance tourism LRE aims to unfold these Allied offensives of 1944 and 1945 in one narrative combining the different perspectives and points of view. By combining locations with personal stories of people who fought and suffered there, it gives visitors the opportunity to follow the Allied march and visit significant sites from war cemeteries to museums and monuments but also events and commemorations. In April 2019, Liberation Route Europe became a certified Cultural Route of the Council of Europe.
caption: Battle of the Hürtgen forest
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