CONNECT WITH HISTORY AND REMEMBRANCE
WWTOURS &
REMEMBRANCE
We provide tailor made and group guided visits to Europe’s main battlefields and war sites: Normandy and the D-Day-beaches in France, Market Garden (Arnhem - Oosterbeek) and the Battle for the Scheldt in the Netherlands, Bastogne in Belgium, Alsace in France, the Munich - Dachau - Berchtesgaden - Zell am See region (Germany and Austria), Berlin and surrounding regions in Germany, all Band of Brothers destinations, and all other European historic and war destinations of your choice, like the 1815 Waterloo battlefields near Brussels and the European or Military Barracks quarters there.
History Inside Out
The battlefield and historical tour organisation
“In those three years the men had seen more, endured more, and contributed more than most men can see, endure or contribute in a lifetime.”
-band of brothers-
You have never seen the European battlefields, its monuments and great cities ? You have seen the HBO Series ‘Band of Brothers’ and want to see the sites for yourself ? You are looking for an incentive trip with your colleagues or are planning to travel with friends or family to Europe, looking for interesting battlefield tours in Normandy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany or Austria ?
WWTOURS brings you along on an unforgettable journey to the beaches of Normandy, Hitler’s Atlantikwall, the 1944 battles in Belgium and the Netherlands, cities like Cherbourg, Caen, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Berlin to Peenemünde, Bastogne, Strasbourg and Haguenau, and Munich to Berchtesgaden and Zell am See.
Special tours are organised in Brussels in the European and Military Quarters #decolonisation #difficultheritage
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The possibilities are endless
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Let's meet
It's all about you and your interests. Let's stick our heads together via a phone call or a face-to-face video meeting and start making plans according to your wishes, time and budget.
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we do it your way
The best way for a great experience is your own way. And that's what we, at WWTOURS do; in a direct and close contact we build a custom made programme. From guided visits to important sites, to arranging transportation, hotels, dinners, etc. At this point we constitute the total price of your visit.
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Band of Brothers Tour
Arnhem and Market Garden
NORMANDY D-DAY BEACHES
Follow in the footsteps of Band of Brothers, the legendary US paratroopers ‘Easy Company’ unit in WW2’s European theatre. Travel the liberation of Europe from Normandy (France) to Zell am See (Austria), via Market Garden in Eindhoven (Netherlands), the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne (Belgium), Haguenau (France) and Berchtesgaden near Munich (Germany).
Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword - join us on an experience tour of the Allied invasion beaches of 6 June 1944 and the French hinterland battles.
See the places where they fought, see the sites, memorials and museums, from Caen to Cherbourg over Saint-Mère-Eglise.
Walk in the footsteps of the 1st Airborne Division in the Oosterbeek and Arnhem (Netherlands) streets and visit the John Frost Bridge. Experience the Perimeter walk to the Rhine and visit the Hartenstein Museum where the Red Devils made their last stand in September 1944.
WATERLOO 1815 CAMPAIGN
BERLIN 1945 AND COLD WAR
Munich WWII
Walk or bike the 1815 battlefields of the Waterloo campaign south of Brussels in Belgium. Visit the well preserved battlefield, see where Wellington and Blücher stopped Napoleon's armies and climb the Lion's Mount.
Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburger Tor, Unter den Linden, Wilhelmstrasse, persecution and Holocaust, the Wall and the museums: experience all layers of this historic city with a Berliner. From the beginning of the Third Reich and the Battle of Berlin in April - May 1945 to the Cold War that followed.
Walk the streets of the capital of Bavaria, with its rich past and with its difficult 20th century history. See where Hitler planned his first coup, where 19th century kings and the 20th Nazi-party rallied.
BRUSSELS'
EUROPEAN QUARTER
BRUSSELS DECOLONISATION
BRUSSELS &
COMIC STRIPS
The European Quarter in Brussels is the pinnacle of EU decision-making. It was also the first historic fair ground of Brussels, a marshalling yard, a diplomatic hub and an architectural and social test case. Walk the streets, visit the EU insitutions (on request) with a former EU civil servant an Brussels citizen.
Visit the Belgian Comic Strip Museum in Brussels (Zandstraat / rue des Sables) and / or do the comic strip wall tour around the 4 corners of the Brussels city center.
Brussels is the capital of colonial Belgium. In its streets, military and colonial heritage is still omnipresent. Participate in a visit by a native Brussels guide of the most emblematic sites that stirr discussions on dissonant heritage and 'decolonisation'.
Memel, Lithuania
La Hague Atlantikwall
Antwerp Fortresses
Discover the pristine Baltic Sea coast of Lithuania’s Klaipėda, or should we say ‘Memel’, region. Feel the history of this region thrown back and forth between Lithuania, Hitler Germany and the USSR. Discover the monuments, museums and fortifications that testify of this difficult history.
Discover the extensive German Atlantikwall and radar fortifications in the La Hague peninsula near Cherbourg (Cotentin, France) from their construction and as sites where the DDay liberation of Normandy and its deepsea port of Cherbourg came to an end in June 1944.
Discover the 50+ fortifications large Antwerp region fortress belt. Visit spectacular examples of the Antwerp 19th century fortress belt and its WWI and WWII history, its nature forts, event locations with lounge bars, a rampart being renovated, Forts Liezele and Liefkenshoek with their interactive museums.
WHY CHOOSE WWTOURS
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Guides that know and have lived in the USA, France (Normandy), Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, speak their languages fluently and are familiar with specific cultural needs.
A proven record of more than 100 battlefield tours, from Waterloo, the Normandy Beaches, via Market Garden to Berlin.
WWTOURS organizes tailor-made and complete WWII site experiences for all ages.
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Hi, I’m Rafaël Deroo
As the son of a WWII researcher at the Belgian Centre of Expertise for the history of 20thcentury conflicts (www.cegesoma.be), I have become what they call a history buff, roaming Europe’s battlefields and museums.
After years working as a civil servant in Flemish, Belgian and European administrations, I created my own company People&Ideas in 2017, creating content, events and consulting for European fortified history networks and wrote a history book on the WWII German Atlantikwall in Normandy and allied commando action in the Cherbourg peninsula.
The specific tour guiding activity WWTOURS & Remembrance comes from these experiences. It channels my unstoppable drive to connect with people and discuss the difficult military heritage that we have in Europe and the world.
Join me on these walks through Europe’s contested years, from Waterloo to WWII.
partners
We are a proud accredited guide at:
- Hartenstein Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek and Arnhem (Netherlands)
- D-Day French-German Radar Museum in Douvres-la-Délivrande, Normandy (France)
- Berlin Wahnsinn, Berlin (Germany)
- Cotentin Tourism Board, Normandy (France)
- Forte Cultura fortified sites network (member of EFFORTS Europe)
- Official London Guides
- Davidsfonds
- Korei tours
WWTOURS is member of the International
Guild of Battlefield Guides and of the networks of the
Liberation Route Europe and Forte Cultura guides
