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 EUROPEAN   CONTEMPORARY   HISTORY   TOURS  2004
June 17 through July 1 - Southern Europe Tour in detail, page 4.

On these four pages, you will find the detailed itinerary, places we visit and information on the hotels in a slightly different background color.

On the route map, you see the figures that refer to the places on page one, two, three and four. (These are direct links or click the place in the map)

Links to other sites or pages with more information open in a new window which may be closed after visiting.

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2004  June 28 Monday                map reference   9 .
Group Lunch en route.

Discover here a Grand Hotel where an international comsmopolitan ambience blends perfectly with personal atmosphere and obliging service.

Muenchen -

Arabella Sheraton
Grand Hotel


2004  June 29 Tuesday               map reference   9 .

Today we visit Camp Dachau. (with relevant video on the bus)

The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial from Nandor Gild
(1968 in Bronze 21 feet high and 52 feet wide.)



Dachau was one of the first Nazi concentration camps.These places were essential for the oppression and mass murder of Jews and all other groups that were not appealing to the ideas of the New Reich.



Memorial "Grave of thousands unknown"

Beside camps where the Jews were used for labor, there were the so called POW's, prisoner-of-war camps and transit camps. Worst of all, of course were the death camps, but in all camps the living conditions were far below anything considered acceptable.




Memorial with Never Again in five languages.

Dachau is a nice little village with a castle and historic town center and it still is. But Dachau can't forget its past.
In 1983, 50 years after the camp was opened the first exhibition showed that the past was still alive in Dachau.  

Memorial of the Death March from Dachau. A sculpture at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.


Memorial "think about how we died here"

Dachau started to be used as a camp for opponents of the Nazi's in 1933. A prison for Communists, Social Democrats an the first non Christians were send there too.

Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies , dissenting clergy, homosexuals, Communists, Social Democrats, and the first non-Christians were imprisoned there too.

 Münich is the gateway to the Bavarian Alps, which stretch out to Italy. Bavarian food and beer are famous. In the center of the city is the Marienplatz surrounded by restaurants where its famous Glockenspiel carillon will highlight our morning for departure back home.

 

"The past is never dead.
          It's not even past."
William Faulkner, author

 Park Hotel Landau
 
 



 



 


 


2004  June 30 Wednesday                map reference   10 .
Today we visit the Frankhaus.
 

Group Diner at the hotel Arendburg, located in Brussels' historical and commercial district and just 300 m from the famous Grand Place

   Grand Place Arendburg

 

2004  July 1 Thursday              map reference   10 .

  Departure for the USA from  Brussels.

 

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In total there are 5 group dinners and three group lunches.

The videos shown on the bus partly pertain to the Holocaust sites shortly before we visit them. For the other part, they contain information regarding the cities we are approaching. One video concerns the life of Miep Gies, Anne Frank's helper.

Please take note that the background of the Hotel information differs slightly in color.

Pictures are merely a way to give an impression; they may not represent the exact view we will meet. Hotels in particular always show pictures of their most beautiful rooms.

 

EUROPEAN   CONTEMPORARY   HISTORY   TOURS   2004

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