Get knee deep into history where the desperate German war industry went underground to avoid Allied bombardment, burying its factories and assets in disused mines or newly-built tunnel systems, hundreds of which were under construction all over the Reich by the war’s end.
This six-day tour will visit the underground installations in central Germany, along with associated forced labor sites. Participants will visit the rapidly-expanded Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, where the Nazis assembled the V-2 rockets and V-1 flying bombs, as well as the secret REIMAHG factory complex for the assembly of the Me-262 jet fighters, and an exclusive visit to the underground factory which made the jet engines for these aircraft. Additional sites will focus on the tens of thousands of slave laborers who were forced to work on these construction projects, including a visit to Ohrdruf, the first concentration camp liberated by US troops, and an underground jet fuel refinery, where Jewish-American POWs were forced to excavate over a dozen tunnels.
We’ll also visit one of Germany’s vast salt mines, including a visit to the room where Patton’s army famously discovered the Reichsbank’s gold reserves.
Join us for this very unique above- and underground tour that showcases the lengths the Nazis went to in order to continue war-time armament production and the horrific cost in human life that resulted.
Price is per person based on double occupancy.
Pick-up at FRA at 12:00pm. Drive to the hotel. Time for resting and/or sightseeing in Weimar before dinner. Briefing at the hotel followed by a welcome dinner. Overnight in Weimar, Germany.
Please Note: The pick-up and return point for this tour will be Frankfurt Airport (FRA). A specific meeting point will be provided later. Participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation to and from the meeting point. Participants with their own vehicles can arrange to meet us at an alternate location