Nazi Driven From Hurtgen Forest : Battle-weary, surrendered Germans stand in the mud of captured Reich soil as they wait near Jungersdorf to be processed for internment. These Naziz were among the last enemy troops to surrender to First U.S. Army soldiers at the close of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest. December 12, 1944, American troops broke through the forest and reached the Roer River in three places, driving to a point within a mile and a quarter of Duren, river bastion on the road to the industrial center of Cologne. January 19, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).