11-day THIRD REICH

Passengers are greeted at the Munich International Airport and transferred to our hotel in Nuremberg a city that has a special place in German history. After you get to know your fellow passengers at the orientation dinner, the next two days we discover the city, the propaganda capital of the Nazi Movement, infamous for its former Nazi Party Rallies, and post-war trials indicting Nazi leaders in the Palace of Justice. Our walking tour brings us closer to the historical center, the one-time capital of the Holy Roman Empire which was heavily bombed and nearly completely destroyed during World War II. On our way to Hamburg, we will spend one night at the charming city of Erfurt and resume our journey with a stop at the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp and its underground armaments tunnels where the Nazis produced V1 and V2 weapons during World War II.

We discover the best of Hamburg, the largest port city in Germany with its historical ports, cosmopolitan charm, and a series of World War II-related sites, such as the St. Nikolai Church, the Hamburg Harbor or one of the largest ever flak towers built by Nazi Germany. From here, we visit the impressive Tank Museum in Munster housing more than 150 tanks and armored vehicles from all chapters of the history of armored warfare. We spend a day at Laboe where the German Naval Memorial offers a beautiful view at the Kieler Fjord and the German Submarine U-995 lets you explore the inside of an iconic World War II war machine. As we travel to our final destination, the German capital of Berlin, we will stop at the House of the Wannsee Conference, an elegant lakeside mansion, where Nazi leaders decided about the Final Solution to exterminate European Jews.

We end our tour in the extraordinary capital of Berlin, where the devastating war ended in Europe. By visiting the famous landmarks of the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate, the location of the former Gestapo headquarters or the site of Adolf Hitler’s Führerbunker we get a more in-depth analysis of the rise and fall of Hitler and his Third Reich. We discover Berlin on a walking tour showing you famous Cold War sites such as Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin Wall. We take a boat cruise on the river Havel to see all the beauty around this historic city. We will close the program with a visit to a nearby former Luftwaffe and Royal Air Force airfield which houses now the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr with a wide array of iconic aircraft from both world wars and the Cold War. After saying goodbye the next morning, the passengers are transferred to Berlin's Brandenburg Airport for their return flights.