World War 2 Battlefield Tours – 2012 (page 7)
The tour list gives the full index of all of our battlefield tours, pilgrimage tours and war graves tours for the Second World War. Expanded details of all tours is also available in our brochure, contact us for a copy.
WORLD WAR 2: Berlin Special
6th – 12th October £750.00 Can't make a trip?
Want photographs of a Grave, Memorial or Battlefield site? Contact Ian at the War Research Society.
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After a morning departre from the UK this tour travels through France, Belgium and into Holland where we spend our first in the Eindhoven area. On the second day we travel along the Corridor 'Hells Highway' up to Nijmegen and Arnhem covering the story of 'Operation Market Garden', 'A Bridge Too Far' in the company of Lt.Col.(Rtd.) Tom van Soest. We spend the night in our hotel in Arnhem. The next day we visit the Belsen Concentration Camp, before arriving at our hotel in the Helmstedt area. We then travel to Berlin where we visit the Oder River at the point that the Russian Forces crossed. We follow the Battle of the Seelow Heights, visiting the museum and memorial, before following the Russian advance into the heart of Berlin and the capture of the Reichstag building. The next day we visit Checkpoint Charlie, the remains of the Gestapo Headquarters, see the remains of the old Berlin Wall, Alexander Platz, Old East Berlin, Unter den Linden, the Brandenburg Gate, the site of Hitler’s Bunker, the Victory Memorial, the Plotensee Memorial and the Olympic Stadium. We end the day at the Berlin War Cemetery, before returning to our Hotel at Helmstedt. On the next day we travel back to Arnhem, and on the final day we make our way back to Calais for the afternoon ferry home. On this tour there are options to visit Oosterbeek, Reichswald Forest, Hanover, Becklinghem, Munster Heath, Sage, Kiel, and Hamburg cemeteries. |
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