May 28, 2027

Treasures of Prague

$1,699 per person double occupancy, $2,199 single occupancy
Jewish Quarter and Old Town Walking Tour / Prague Castle / Strahov Library

Accommodations: Hotel Augustine (B, R)

May 29, 2027 - Day 1

Arrive in Prague

Individual arrivals into Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) / Welcome Reception, Lecture, and Dinner

Accommodations: Augustine, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Prague (R, D) 

May 30, 2027 - Day 2

Heydrich & the Occupation of Prague

Panenské Brežany / Former Villa of Reinhard Heydrich / Lunch on own in Prague / Petschek Palace and Memorial Peckárna

Accommodations: Augustine, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Prague (B)

June 1, 2027 - Day 3

Operation Anthropoid

Sts. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral / Kubiš and Gabcík Safehouses / Lunch at Hoffmeister / Lidice

Accommodations: Augustine, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Prague (R, D, L) 

June 2, 2027 - Day 4

Terezín

Theresienstadt Ghetto / Lunch at Kotlina / Small Fortress / Reception featuring classical musicians playing music from composers who were prisoners at Terezín

Accommodations: Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski Dresden (B, L, R)

June 3, 2027 - Day 5

Colditz and Meissen

Colditz Castle / Lunch on own in Meissen / Schloss Proschwitz and wine tasting

Accommodations: Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski Dresden (B) 

June 4, 2027 - Day 6

Pirna and Königstein Fortress

T4 Euthanasia Center at Sonnenstein / Lunch on own in Pirna / Königstein Fortress

Accommodations: Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski Dresden (B) 

June 5, 2027 - Day 7

The Bombing of Dresden

Dresden Old Town Walking Tour / Bundeswehr Military History Museum / Münchner Platz / Group Dinner at Hotel

Accommodations: Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski Dresden (B, D) 

June 6, 2027 - Day 8

The Link-up on the Elbe

Torgau / Hartenfels Castle / Lunch with Lecture in Torgau Town Hall / Berlin in WWII Walking Tour

Accommodations: Hotel de Rome Berlin (B, L) 

June 7, 2027 - Day 9

The Fall of Berlin

Seelow Heights / Group lunch / Treptower Park / Dinner at Käfer on the Reichstag

Accommodations: Hotel de Rome Berlin (B, L, D) 

June 8, 2027 - Day 10

Karlshorst

Karlshorst Museum / Lunch on own / Optional afternoon tour to Museum Island (includes Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) / Farewell Reception and Lecture

Accommodations: Hotel de Rome Berlin (B, R) 

June 9, 2027 - Day 11

Departures

Transfer to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) for individual flights home

(B)

• Travel with expert historian Saul David, PhD 
• Full-time logistical Tour Manager 
• Expert local guides 
• Roundtrip airport transfers (when arriving & departing on scheduled group tour dates) 
• Luxury 5-star hotel accommodations throughout the itinerary
• Private, first-class, air-conditioned motor coach transportation 
• VIP access to sites and hand-tailored experiences not offered on other tours 
• Entrance fees to all sites, museums, and historic attractions in itinerary 
• Video oral history presentations from the Museum's collection 
• Gratuities to guides, drivers, porters, and servers 
• Personal listening devices on all included touring 
• 6 Breakfasts, 3 Lunches, 1 Reception, and 3 Dinners 
• Beer, wine, and soft drinks with included lunches and dinner 
• Informative map book including useful battlefield maps and archival images to be used throughout your journey

Nonfiction Books

• The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson 
• Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
• SBS – Silent Warriors by Saul David
• Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West by Peter Caddick-Adams  
• The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 by Robert Citino 
• Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe by Stephen E. Ambrose  
• Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose
• The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945 by Richard Overy 
• Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe by Michael Neiberg Germany
• Hitler & World War by Gerhard Weinberg
• Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders by Gerhard Weinberg
• The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt by Anna Hájková
• Theresienstadt: The Town the Nazis Gave to the Jews by Vera Schiff
• Stauffenberg: Symbol of Resistance: The Man Who Almost Killed Hitler by Wolfgang Venohr
• The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw
• In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past by Richard J. Evans
• What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany - An Oral History by Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband
• With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Valet by Heinz Linge
• Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising by Alexandra Richie
• Dresden, Tuesday, February 13, 1945 by Frederick Taylor
• The Road to Berlin: Stalin's War with Germany by John Erickson
• The Last Offensive: United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations by Charles B. MacDonald
• Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II by David Stafford
• The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander
• Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered by Ruth Kluger
• Somewhere There is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust by Michael Gruenbaum
• Fortress of My Youth: Memoir of a Terezín Survivor by Jana Renée Friesová
• Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazi’s Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre
• The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Doughtery
• Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
• The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us by Keith Lowe
• The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin by Cornelius Ryan
• Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen 

Berlin Specific Reading List 

• The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Sir Antony Beevor
• A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City – A Diary by Anonymous
• Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein
• After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by Giles MacDonogh
• The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw
• Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
• Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer
• The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 by Frederick Taylor  
• Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder  

Historical Fiction

• Slaughterhouse Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Women in the Castle: A Novel by Jessica Shattuck

• HHhH: A Novel by Laurent Binet 

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  Films

• "Downfall" (2004) - This German film depicts the final days of Adolf Hitler's rule in Berlin as the Soviet army closes in on the city.
• "Anthropoid" (2016) - The film stars Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan as Czechoslovakian soldiers who are parachuted into Nazi-occupied Prague in 1942 to carry out the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the key architects of the Holocaust and a high-ranking Nazi official.
• “The Man with the Iron Heart” (2017) – The film stars Jason Clarke as Reinhard Heydrich and his rise as the high-ranking Nazi official. Also featuring Rosamund Pike as Lina Heydrich and filmed in Prague, this film is based on the novel HHhH by Laurent Binet.
• "Valkyrie" (2008) - The film is based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (played by Tom Cruise) and the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime. Although the attempt ultimately failed, it remains one of the most famous assassination plots against Hitler during World War II.
• “Conspiracy” (2001) – With an incredible cast including Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth, and more, the dramatic film is about the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, where Nazi officials officially declared the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”