Image Where is this flag from?

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I was told that the flag and picture were from when my grandfather liberated a concentration camp. Does anyone happen to know anything about Hoffen, Germany? Where is it located and what happened there? I cant find much online. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

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r/ww2 • u/TwIzTiDfReAkShOw • 3h ago

A camouflaged German Tiger I heavy tank, Villers-Bocage, France, in June, 1944.

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r/ww2 • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 2h ago

In October of 1944, Sgt. Pierce Dewey of the 39th Combat Engineers has been up to his chest in mud near Livergnano, Italy. His reward is a coffee break with donuts courtesy of an American Red Cross Mobile Unit.

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r/ww2 • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 15h ago

PVT William Zukerbrow of the US 1st Infantry Division crouches behind a German 2cm Flak 38 (missing its barrel) while aiming his M1 Garand in Aachen, Germany - October, 19, 1944

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William L Zuckerbrow was born in Perth Amboy, NJ on June 29, 1919 and enlisted in the Army on October 24, 1941.
He survived WW2, got married, had two sons, and passed away on June 3, 1997 in Arizona

US Army Signal Corps - SC 195600
Wescott Photographer / WWP-PD

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r/ww2 • u/Nearby-Suggestion219 • 19m ago

Discussion Paul Boesch was a highly decorated infantry platoon leader that fought from Brittany, France to the Hürtgen Forest. He published his memoir "Road To Huertgen: Forest In Hell" in 1962

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I wanted to share this here because I believe this is one of the best written accounts by an American Soldier in World War II. I think it’s better written than Company Commander by Charles B. MacDonald and Currahee! by Donald Burgett, and it ranks right up there with With The Old Breed by Eugene Sledge. The author Paul Boesch is well known in the wrestling community and is often regarded as the most decorated World War II wrestling veteran.

Interestingly, the book was published only because Charles MacDonald reached out to Boesch after discovering the manuscript while researching the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest as an army historian, saying that “It was too human a document to be ignored.”

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r/ww2 • u/West-Ebb-7180 • 1h ago

What is this Bayonet/Flag

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My great grandfather brought home a couple things, does anyone seem to know what this bayonet is/for???? Plus the flag as a bonus picture. He landed in France 1944 and fought till the end of the war. 76th division. Have a berthier carbine also! But i dont know what this bayonet is!

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