Concrete, Steel and Labour - the ingredients of Adolf Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, built to defend Europe’s occupied coastline from invasion by the Allies. Thousands of Bunkers, minefields, defence positions, gun sites and other brooding remains of Hitler’s plan for ‘The Thousand Year Reich’. Monolithic constructions to hide and launch Hitler's ‘V’ weapons. Dreams of an impregnable wall and an unstoppable rocket assault - both dreams destined to fail. The wall was breached and instantly made redundant, the V weapon launch sites overrun on 6th June 1944 with the D Day invasion of Normandy.
Our schools tour also looks at the monolithic remains of the V Weapon programme. Science with a dark evil purpose. Huge bunkers and secret tunnels to prepare and launch the V1 Flying Bomb and the V2 Rocket and to fire the V3 Superguns. This Holts School Battlefield and Education tour will visit some of these anthills of construction manned by forced labour and overseen by the German Military and Albert Speer’s sinister Todt Organisation. A tour of concrete and technology on a vast scale. |
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| Day 1 | Drive to Folkestone or Dover for the Tunnel or Ferry to Calais. Visit the Moulin Rouge Battery. Lunch break. The VIP terrace. The Canadian CWGC cemetery. Ruined site of Grosser Kurfurst guns. V3 Supergun site in tunnels at Mimoyecques. Hostel in Boulogne, 2 nights. | |
| Day 2 | Drive east to the St Omer area. The huge dome at La Coupole (V site and museum). Lunch break. Renescure V1 storage site. The V1 launch site at Des Huit Rues. The great bunker in the woods at Eperlecques. | |
| Day 3 | Boulogne East CWGC cemetery. The Battery Todt Casemates and museum. Lunch break. Cap Blanc Nez. Fort Lapin and the beach bunkers. The Royal Green Jackets memorial and beach in Calais. Depart back across the Channel. |
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| NB. Guided tour throughout |