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I live in Aachen, Germany, and there are a bunch of these near the tri-border with the Netherlands and Belgium. I think most people don't even know what they are, and some of them are so covered with dirt and vegetation only a keen eye can spot them.

Still a very nice piece of history.

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As I'm sure you know, there was a lot of fighting around there in October 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen

Yes, I tend to search for bullet holes around the city a lot, which is a weird thing to do now that I said something about it.

If you go town through Krefelderstraße there is a bunch of them on the buildings. The cathedral has some places with grenade shrapnel as well. Some iron gates around the city have little indents from bullets as well. There are a bunch of tanks abandoned in one of the forests to the south, near Brand. Some streets have "gaps" where houses were never reconstructed.

70 something years later and the destruction is still very much visible.

I believe those tanks are from the 1950s, surplus US tanks used as training targets instead of being scrapped.

https://jessicalynnwrites.com/2021/03/see-tanks-in-germany-a...

Was immediately thinking about those, passing them every morning on my way to work, as they weren't removed except where the road is!

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