Zossen Bunkers
Code named ‘Zeppelin’ the Wunsdorf/Zossen bunker complex was built from 1937 to house the high command of the German Army during WWII. Here the Polish campaign was coordinated. It remained the heart of the German War machine, communicating decisions and orders to all fronts and campaigns including Stalingrad until it was taken in April of 1945 by the Soviet forces, some bunkers surviving intact and reused.
It became the HQ of the Soviet occupying forces after WWII, and the main centre of defence for the DDR. Both WWII and Cold War period bunkers can be visited. Train travel is ca. 1 hr.
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Lutherstadt Wittenberg
There are many cases where Berlin can say it changed the world, but under one hour outside the city is a small place on the Elbe river, rarely visited, that can truly make that claim, Wittenberg, city of Martin Luther and the Reformation.
This tour involves ICE high speed train travel (dur. 50 min) – your tickets and reserved seating included.
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We start by the city wall at the Oaktree where Luther burned the Papal Bull a few years after he’d nailed his demands to the church door (or did he?). We then explore what was a Monastery, later Luther’s house, today this contains THE best collection of Lutherabilia in the world.
Visit the Church where Luther and his followers preached the first Protestant sermons, the town square with its beautiful town hall and statues, passing houses where many famous figures stayed. We visit Melanchthon’s house, the linguistic genius without whom Luther could never have translated the Bible into German, and Cranach, Wittenberg worthy and painter with an exclusive contract to paint Luther himself and illustrate his writings. See the oldest northern European town water system and its fountains. We finish at the Saxon royal family palace site and Palace Church with the famous Thesis Door.
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Leipzig City of Heroes
In Berlin you can hear about the momentous events of 1989 that brought down Communism in East Germany and opened the Berlin wall but Leipzig, an hour from Berlin, is where those events began.
One time home of Goethe, Bach and Mahler we can visit the cellar where Goethe’s Faust met the Devil, the church were Bach played, and trace the demonstration movement that began the end of the Cold War.
We shall visit the old town square with its amazing town hall and museum and the East German Stasi Headquarters at the exhibition the Runde Eck (lit. Rounded Corner) before heading back to Berlin.
Your day in Leipzig also gives you a perspective on former east German towns and how they feel today as important social and political battlegrounds for Germany and Europe as a whole.
This tour involves ICE high speed train travel (Dur. 1.10hr). Your tickets and reserved seating included
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Dresden
On this tour, we travel down the picturesque Elbe river valley to Dresden by train and explore amongst urban Dresden’s Baroque masterpieces river. Below new sky line, that of old caught Canaletto’s eye, we enjoy the art and museum collections, at its heart the famous Frauenkirche.
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