the city includes a Stasi Museum, a museum of modern German history, and the huge monument to the 1813 'Battle of the Nations' fought nearby. A side trip to Colditz (25 miles away) is possible.

Tours of the Rhine crossings & the Bridge at Remagen
These tours lend themselves to be 24-hour add-ons to our Market-Garden and / or Battle of the Bulge tours (see World War Two Tours).
A 24-hour extension to our Market-Garden tour would allow a visit to Montgomery's March 1945 crossing points either side of the Wesel.
A 24-hour extension to our Battle of the Bulge tour would allow a visit to the famous bridge at Remagen, which U.S. 9th Armoured Division snatched on 7th March 1945 - the first place that the Allies crossed the Rhine. Additionally it would be possible to follow the routes of British, Canadian or U.S. units in February and March 1945 in the hard sturggle accross the part of Germany west of the Rhine (Reichwald Forst; Eiffel; Mosel Valley; Trier).

Above: The Reichstag, Berlin
Below: Replica V2 rocket at the excellent museum at Peenemünde

Related links:

• World War Two Tours
• Photo Gallery: Germany 2007

Germany - World War
II & the Cold War

labour following the Allied bombing of Peenemünde in August 1943, and Kummersdorf range in the forests 40 kms south of Berlin, where the Army's small-scale rocket research took place in the early 1930's.

Berlin Tours (with Leipzig or Peenemünde add-ons)
We offer a Berlin tour for either private family or larger groups - in either case the tour starts and finishes in Berlin: we meet you there. The tour would take in:
(a) Nazi era sites: the Reichstag; the government district around Wilhelmstrasse and the site of Hitler's Chancellery; the story of the 1945 Battle of Berlin; the 1936 Olympic Stadium; the site of Germany's surrender to Allied forces at the Soviet HQ
(b) Cold War sites: remains of the Berlin Wall; the Berlin Wall centre; Checkpoint Charlie; the Allied Museum; Templehof 1948 Airlift Memorial

Above: Preserved sections of the Berlin Wall in Bernaueurstrasse
Below: The restored Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

(c) present-day Berlin: the beautifully restored Brandenburg Gate; the Holocaust Memorial (opened in 2005); the Jewish Museum; the Museum of German History (2006)
A 2-night extension to this tour to take in Leipzig, 2 hours to the south, would allow you to see the fine city of Leipzig itself: Leipzig was central to the story of the collapse of East Germany in 1989 - as well as the fine Art Nouveau architechture,

The Rhine valley

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The tours we offer in Germany have developed out of

1. my special interest in the V2 rocket programme
2. an interest in Berlin as a key flashpoint of the early Cold War
3. wanting to take further the story of the fighting in the Ardennes (the 'Battle of the Bulge') by following the story up to the Rhine crossings in March 1945

Surviving supports of the bridge at Remagen

2008 exclusive group tours
We are running two overlapping group tours in Germany in October 2008:

• The development of the V2: Berlin, Peenemünde, Kummersdorf & Nordhausen. 4th - 10th October;
• From Total War to Cold War - Germany 1943 to 1989: a unique look at aspects of Germany between Leipzig and Berlin, across five crucial decades. 8th - 13th October.

Click on the links above to book now.

Peenemünde, Nordhausen & Kummersdorf Tours
We have run six large group tours to visit Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea where the V2 was developed and first flown (October 1942), Nordhausen in the Harz Mountains, where the rocket was produced by slave