The Victory in Europe: Market Garden to the Alps Tour follows in the footsteps of the Allies as they marched through Europe to victory over Nazi Germany. Operation Market Garden, launched in Holland in September 1944, was to be a major Allied thrust across the Rhine River into Germany with the ultimate goal of seizing Berlin.
Market Garden was a bold move that failed. The Battle of the Bulge was the opposite of Market Garden.
Americans fought the Germans for 31 gruelling days in the bitter cold, heavy snow and icy water in the largest land battle of WWII. It was one of the most epic and decisive victories of the war.
You will travel from Paris to the Ardennes, Bastogne, and Luxembourg as you learn about these key events in WWII history. You will then continue to Germany, where you will study the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in Nuremberg, the scene of massive Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s, and later the war crime trials of the perpetrators of inhumanity across Europe.
Finally, at Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s Alpine retreat in Bavaria, you will see where he and his henchmen lived in luxury while they built an evil empire on the backs and blood of millions of innocent people.
This is an ideal tour for people who have travelled with us on our Operation Overlord Tour, and for those who have already experienced Normandy or are interested in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.
