b'THE RISE & FALL OF Scan hereCHURCHILL! Scan here NAZI GERMANY for the fullWALKING WITH DESTINY for the full itinerary itineraryDARKNESS VISIBLE 1923 July 2025 Historical Background5 days Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) has become an iconic figure, feted for 1623 June 2025 Historical Background Expert Historian: his wartime leadership. Born at Blenheim Palace into the highest echelons 8 days Munich, 1919. An unknown Austrian corporal walked into a beerhall.and theAllen Packwood of Victorian society, Churchill made his name as a soldier and writer, before entering Parliament at the age of just 25 in 1900. From the outset Expert Historian: rest is history. The remarkable rise of Adolf Hitler from obscurity to GermanysActivity Level: 2 his career was a roller coaster ride. He changed his party twice, told the Professor Alex Korb dictatorial Fuhrer, and finally to the overlordship of occupied Europe, is thesuffragettes he would not be henpecked, fell from office over the Dardanelles story of a catastrophe unparalleled in human history. The Nazi dream of acampaign, served in the trenches of the First World War, dismissed Gandhi Activity Level: 2 racially pure Third Reich, and the quest for Lebensraum in Russia, turnedThis unique tour will set out to explore theas a half naked fakir and became the most vocal opponent of the British Germany into a totalitarian state and plunged the world into war. complex history of the man behind the myth,appeasement of Hitler. As Prime Minister from May 1940, he led his country This tour traces the dramatic and harrowingvisiting many of the sites associated with histhrough the Battle of Britain and the Blitz and on to final victory in 1945, only story of the Rise and Fall of the Third Reichlong life and controversial public career.to lose the ensuing general election. As an elder statesman he warned of chronologically from its birth in 1919 Munich,the dangers of the Soviet iron curtain while preaching greater European Celebrated as the greatest Briton in historyreconciliation and promoting the special relationship with the United States.to its bloody end in Berlin in 1945. In theWinston Churchill has fascinated the nation company of an expert historian, we visit allfor over half a century. Soldier, politician, the significant milestones marking Adolfwriter, historian, artist and orator he shaped Hitlers ascent and Germanys descent intoBritain in many ways in a number of fields. the abyss. We begin in the Bavarian capitalBut it is in his role as Prime Minister during where we see the sites associated with theWorld War Two that he is best known as he Nazi partys rise, including the route of theguided the country to victory. This tour is a 1923 Beerhall Putsch, the site of the partychance to get to know the great man and HQ and that of the 1938 Munich conference.follow in his footsteps, from his early life at We tour the appalling BuchenwaldBlenheim Palace, his finest hour at the Cabinet concentration camp; the Fuhrers idyllicWar Rooms and his private life at his home in mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden; the NaziChartwell. We also get a chance to visit some partys monster rally grounds at Nuremberg;of the lesser-known sites in Churchills career and where Nazi crimes were judged andsuch as his London home and the Admiralty condemned. We explore the state buildingBuilding. that housed the weak and ineffectual government of the Weimar Republic. DuringDue to the unpredictable nature of London our final days in Berlin, we visit Wannsee,traffic we will be making use of the London where the Holocaust was planned, andUnderground on this tour to visit many sites as walk through the city centre viewing thewell as regional train services to get to sites Reichstag, Holocaust memorial, and the siteoutside the capital. In central London we will of the bunker where Hitlers life ended. tour certain areas on foot, e.g. the area around the Palace of Westminster and Whitehall. Day 1 Fly from London to Munich or make your own arrangements to join thetour at the hotel. Hotel in Munich - 2 nights. (D) Day 1 Meet midday at central London hotel. Buffet sandwich lunch and Day 2 Munich: tour on foot and public transport, incl. Sternecker beerhall, 1923 introductory talk. Churchills house at Hyde Park Gate, Westminster Beerhall putsch route, Odeonsplatz, Hofbrauhaus, Brown House, Munich and Parliament Square, Whitehall - Downing Street, the cenotaph, conference site (exterior only). (B,D)Horse Guards, Admiralty Arch. (L,D)Day 3 Berchtesgaden/Obersalzberg: Berghof, Kehlstein, Eagles Nest Hotel in Day 2 Full day at Bladon and Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (B,D)Berchtesgaden1 night. (B,D) Day 3 Westminster - Churchill War Rooms/Museum, tour of Houses of Day 4 Nuremberg: Congress Hall, Rally Grounds Hotel in Nuremberg1 night. (B,D)Parliament in the Palace of Westminster (B,L,D)Day 5 Nuremberg: Courthouse. Bayreuth: Wahnfried, Opera House. Hotel in Day 4 Full day at Churchills home at Chartwell, Kent (B,D)Weimar1 night. (B,D)Day 6 . Buchenwald, Wannsee. Hotel in Berlin2 nights. (B,D) Day 5 Visit Churchill Archives in Cambridge. Return to hotel in ESSENTIALS Day 7 Berlin: tour on foot and U-Bahn: Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, FuhrerLondon by train. Disperse 16.00 approximately (B,L,D)3-4-star hotels, meals as indicated,bunker, Holocaust memorial, Topography of Terror Museum. (B, D) ESSENTIALSdrinks with dinner, all entrance fees,Day 8 . Platform 17 Memorial, Olympic Stadium, Tempelhof Airport. Continue to4-star hotels, meals as indicated, tour manager and expert historianBrandenburg airport for flight home or perhaps extend your stay in drinks with dinner, all entrance fees, throughout, all internal travel, Germany. (B) tour manager and expert historian optional travel from UK. throughout, all internal travel.52 www.theculturalexperience.com I info@theculturalexperience.com I UK0345 475 1815 I USA(toll-free) 877 209 5620 www.theculturalexperience.com I info@theculturalexperience.com I UK0345 475 1815 I USA(toll-free) 877 209 5620 53'