This is a 15 day ‘Patrol’ in Germany

We stay in very nice hotels with massive breakfasts (some serve champagne and other fines wines too).

We tour the harbor Hamburg, past the giant shipyards that built BISMARCK and many U-boats. This harbor tour is a great way to get acquainted with other SHARKHUNTERS and learn a little about Germany.

We visit the Navy Memorial and tour through the only Type VII-C left in the world, with her last Skipper!

We visit the German U-boat Memorial, built to honor the thousands who did not return.

In Hamburg, we receive a special SHARKHUNTERS only tour of the fantastic museum of Peter Tamm where among other tremendously rare items, we will see the Admiralstabs (Admiral’s staffs) of Großadmiral Erich Raeder and Großadmiral Karl Dönitz. Our group lays flowers on the grave of Großadmiral Dönitz.

Then our deluxe tour bus departs for our hotel in Berlin, Germany’s historic capitol city, where we will visit places not open to ordinary tourists – but then, SHARKHUNTERS are welcome in places others are not.

In Berlin, we tour many historic places including Sans Souci (it means no sorrow) the palace of Friederich the Great; we visit the palace of a German prince Potsdam, where the famed Potsdam Conference took place.

Naturally, we tour Berlin by bus to get a view of this beautiful old city. We will drive down the Unter den Linden, along the Kurfurstendam, by the Cafe Kranzler where Cold War spies frequently met.

The Olympiastadiun (Olympic Stadium) was the site of the 1936 Olympics, and the scene of so much history in the making. The mistress of one of Germany’s top spies was Adolf Hitler’s companion for these games, and she soon became the lover of young Lt. John F. Kennedy. We’ll be there – we’ll see the Glockturm (bell tower) & the Alte Glock (the old bell) that rang over the athletes.

Again in Berlin, we visit the Brandenburg Gate, site of the Führerbunker; Göring’s Luftwaffe headquarters & other sites including a still standing part of the Berlin Wall AND have a SHARKHUNTERS ONLY tour of bunkers and Flak towers.

A short drive takes us to the ancient Polish city of Küstrim where the Soviet troops crossed the Oder River into Germany to begin their final push into Berlin – and we enjoy our lunch in a centuries old fortress there.

In addition, we have a SHARKHUNTERS ONLY tour of the old Reichstag building.

Back to North Germany where we tour the eerie castle Wewelsburg where Heinrich Himmler tried to resurrect the old ‘Knights of the Teutonic Order’. We are in the special crypt where young SS officers took their oath.

Across Steinhuder Meer by boat to the ancient castle Wilhelmstein is the place where the 1st German U-Boat was tested some three centuries ago. We also visit a special curio shop where relics of the past can be had.

We are welcomed at the ancestral home of General Scharnhorst and enjoy lunch there – the best soup in Germany! This is a private home, not open to visitors, but this day is special for SHARKHUNTERS only.

We visit a fully restored Ju 52, other aircraft and aviation artifacts at Wunstorff Air Base.

A short walking tour along the “Red Thread” path in beautiful old Hannover brings us into the heart of this ancient city, home to the Hannoverian Kings.

After lunch, we have the famed Luftwaffe Museum all to ourselves with special guides, usually Luftwaffe veterans, and we look at a beautifully restored Me 109 and a ‘Butcher Bird’, an FW-190. We are encouraged to climb the ladders and take photos inside the cockpit.

We tour the German U-boat Archives that works so closely with SHARKHUNTERS. Its founder and curator says that only SHARKHUNTERS and his archive tells the honest history of the U-Bootwaffe. All others, in his words, are nonsense makers.

We visit the Naval Base at Wilhelmshaven (above) and we tour on board a 206A Class submarine there.

We tour through the only Type XXI ‘Electro-Boot’ left in the world as well as an ‘S-boot’ and others. U-2540 was one of the hundreds scuttled by the Kriegsmarine in May of 1945 – but she was the only U-Boat that the Allies failed to locate and break up for scrap. When Germany rebuilt their navy in the mid-1950’s this boat was raised, refurbished and put back into service. We go aboard for a tour. It is pure history!

Your low tour price includes:
All transportation by deluxe motorcoach;
All hotels and accommodations;
All entry to places featured in this brochure;
All meetings with the veterans
and much more

Only $1,999 per person