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6EdOY TIL of Friedrich Lengfeld, the German soldier of WW2 who gave his life when he tried to save the life of an American soldier. He is the only German soldier of the Second World War to have a monument erected by Americans.
6DL8 TIL that a German lieutenant, Friedrich Lengfeld, was killed by a land mine while attempting to rescue a wounded American soldier during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in WWII. The Americans erected a monument in his honor; the only American monument placed in any German military cemetery.