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Here you can find a complete description of our tour: Munich - Dachau - Landsberg - Neuschwanstein - Berchtesgarden - Linz - Mauthausen - Nuremberg - Würzburg - Heilbronn - Bad Wimpfen - Heidelberg - Dresden - Berlin - Bergen-Belsen - Sachsenhausen - Potsdam Further information’s: please follow our tour on a map... / dates and prices... / you want more details... / you want to book the tour...

1. day After your arrival at Munich International Airport, you will be picked up and shuttled to your city hotel by our local representative. After check-in, you get time for recreation, before we start to our sight-seeing tour through Munich. We will show you the historical centre and all those famous sites and historical buildings that Hitler frequented and where the NSDAP, political party of the Third Reich was founded. You will also hear about the „Geschwister Scholl“ and the history of the resistance of the White Rose Group against Hitler. In the afternoon you have time to discover the city of your own or return to your hotel. In the evening you enjoy a typical Bavarian dinner at the world-famous „Hofbräuhaus“ with Munich beer and „Blasmusik”.

2. day After breakfast we bring you to the KZ Dachau, where not only Jewish politicals and intellectuals where arrested, but also many German political opponents of the Third Reich. You join a tour and visit the documentation centre. Then we continue the tour in direction of Fuessen over Landsberg a. Lech, where we have lunch, before we visit the fabulous castle of Neuschwanstein, legendary home of the Bavarian King Ludwig II. Lodge at the famous „Hotel zum Türken“ on top of the Obersalzberg Mountain, located right next to the house where Hitler met Chamberlain and Mussolini and other world leaders. Dinner at a local restaurant with „Heimatabend“.

3. day In the morning visit of the documentation centre and tour at Obersalzberg and time to enjoy the wonderful scenery of the Alpes mountains of Austria and Switzerland. Then we will see the parental home of Hitler at Braunau, before we reach the city of Linz in Austria for lunchtime. After the visit of the Concentration Camps Mauthausen we continue our tour to Nuremberg, where we stay in the famous „Hotel Deutscher Hof” which Hitler normally frequented. Dinner at a historical restaurant in the medieval centre of this ancient empirial city.

4. day Tour through the almost 2000-year-old historical centre, where not only the middle-aged German emperors had one of their main castles, but also home of some of our most famous painters and sculptors like Albrecht Dürer and the inventor of the first pocket-watch in the world. After lunch we see the Reichsparteitagsgelände, where Hitler held his most infamous Nazi party rallies and conventions, and the place of the famous Nuremberg Trial. Then enough time to discover the city with its famous churches and antique houses, also world-famous for the „Christkindlmarkt„ before Christmas. Dinner at a historical restaurant.

5. day After breakfast we will start in direction of the bishop-city of Wurzburg, which had been heavily damaged during World War II. The wonderful barock-style castle in the center with its beautiful gardens is part of the UNESCO world heritage. When you see the today’s sillouette of this old city, you can hardly imagine that most of it was destroyed. There is also a famous university and home of Conrad Roentgen, who discovered the x-ray. We have lunch at a 1.200-year-old winery, which remembers with its courtyard to the palaces in Italy. We stay overnight near Heilbronn, which was so terribly destroyed by American bombers on December 4th,1944,that people decided to rebuild the city at another place near the river. Our hotel is „Heinsheim Castle“ where you feel the atmosphere of the late middle-age with the antique furniture in all rooms.

6. day Today you can choose between two options in the morning. Who likes can go for golfing nearby the hotel, or you visit the middle-age city of Bad Wimpfen, that originally had been founded 15.000 years ago in the late stone-age. Since those days people are living here, and the Romans and later the early German emperors of the 8th and 11th century builded their palaces and churches. After a short trip by boat on the river Neckar you have the opportunity of a wine- tasting at the small city of Gundelsheim. Here you find the biggest castle beside Heidelberg castle and close is the second-oldest winery of the world from the year 1184, where we have lunch. In that area the SS and the American army were fighting for months to cross the river. Near Gundelsheim Hitler builded 65 bunkers, which you don’t see because they are perfectly camouflage within 3 squaremiles, to defeat the allies. On our tour to Heidelberg, we follow the river Neckar with its ancient villages and pittoresque castles and ruins. Lodge at Heidelberg and dinner at a traditional restaurant frequented for hundreds of years by the students of the famous university.

7. day Today we walk through the world-wide-known city of Old Heidelberg with its famous bridge and castle, where you can see the biggest wine barrel of the world .Listen to the story of the dwarf Perkeo, who was drinking the total contents of that barrel during his lifetime. Your tour-guide will be Mark Twain himself, who traveled along the Neckar on a raft in the late 19th century. After lunch we start in direction of Dresden. Along our trip we will pass the ancient cities of Bamberg and Bayreuth, with its well known opera house for Richard Wagner, who is assumed to inspire Hitler and his fatal ideas about Arian people, which costed so many lives. In the evening you have lunch in Dresden in one of the open-air restaurants along the Elbe.

8. day Today we see the famous city of Dresden with its world-wide-known Canaletto-panorama and the Frauenkirche, symbol of the absurdity of war that also became a synonymous of the spirit of rebuilding after the years of surpressure in the former GDR. Admire the wonderful reconstruction of the famous barock-style city of the 16./17.century before we start to Berlin, old and new capital of Germany. Lunch at Dresden, Dinner at your top city hotel in Berlin.

9. day Today we spend together with an historian to visit all the most interesting historical and political buildings and sites of the Third Reich. Berlin was the very centre of Hitlers top military brass, while making the most critical decisions of the war. You see the place where Graf Stauffenberg was executed together with other opponents after their useless attempt to Hitler in 1944. We also visit the new Holocaust Memorial with the Jewish Museum and the rebuilded synagoge of the Jewish community of Berlin. Visit the well known places of the Cold War like Checkpoint Charly or the rest of the infamous Wall, the Brandenburg gate and the Reichstag, which is again German Parliament. Lunch at a typical „Berliner Kneipe” dinner at your hotel.

10. day Today you feel the tragic of some of the darkest places you can imagine. Places where millions of our Jewish fellow citizens where killed by the Nazis, a horrible vision of the unbelievable crime of Hitlers supportors and all Germans. The KZ s of Bergen-Belsen and Sachsenhausen are today memorials of the Holocaust. Spend time in honour of all those people who died there. In the afternoon we visit the city of Potsdam, home of the Prussion king Frederic II. The famous castle and gardens are part of the UNESCO world heritage. Here you find also the manison where Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and others signed the treaty which separated finally the world into East and West Dinner at our hotel and opportunity to see some of the actual shows of Berlin.

11. day After breakfast and check-out you get the opportunity to visit some of the famous sites of the city. Why not say hallo to Nofretete ore have a round view from the top of the Reichstag. After lunch, shuttle to Berlin International Airport for your return-flight. If you want to extend your stay, we are able to offer hotels, apartments at some other famous country sites of Germany. What about a stay in some of the 19-century Spa of the German emperors at the Baltic see with its islands and wonderful nature and wilderness? Or do you prefer a cruise on the river Rhine with its castles and ruins and pittoresque villages? A trip to Bavaria ore the Lake of Constance? Please feel free to contact us.

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