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Here it is -
the official 2008 Sharkhunters "Southern Patrol" - Don't
miss it!
Our hotel - where Hitler's personal body guard was housed.
THIS HOTEL WILL CLOSE END OF 2008!
There is NO tomorrow, no other chance to stay here ever again.
FANTASTIC
Southern Patrol!
Saturday
13 Sept. through Saturday 27 Sept. – 15 DAYS
We’re going places in 2008, meeting people like
never before
Our
very special hotel on the Obersalzberg (photos below) is a quaint three centuries old Bavarian
gasthaus, filled with history, owned by our good friend INGRID SCHARFENBERG
(3308-A/LIFE-1993). During
World War II, this was the HQ for Hitler’s personal guard when he was on the
mountain and was 100 meters from his home.
Bunkers, Tunnels running beneath the
homes.
When you walk the courtyard of the hotel, in the drive or next door where
Hitler’s home stood – you are walking in the footsteps of history.
When you turn in for the night, you’ll wonder who slept in this room 65
or 70 years ago.
Who took their schnapps in the dayroom downstairs 7 decades past?
Is your imagination up to it?
In
the cellar of our hotel is the entrance to the underground bunker system that
honeycombed the mountain for miles. Hitler,
Göring, Bormann, the guards all had their bunker systems and we are right
there!
The
Eagle’s Nest!
This was the rest house (photo below) that Martin
Bormann had built for Hitler’s 50th birthday.
We will be there in the elevator inlaid with highly burnished copper
to the massive fireplace of Italian marble sent by Mussolini to the room where
Eva Braun took tea with her friends. We are here for our lunch.
The Eagle's Nest itself and further up a short trail is the Memorial at Eagle's
Nest
From the deck at the Eagle’s Nest high atop Kehlstein Mountain, we see all the
way to the famed Salzburg Castle.
München – Where it all Began
We tour the many famous places in München by bus and on foot, and we have our
lunch in the Hofbraühaus where the followers listened to Hitler's speeches in the
huge third floor room that seated 800. The Swastika is still in
the ceiling!
Feldherrnhalle was the intended goal of the 9 November
1923 “Putsch” but the marchers were just arriving when the armed confrontation took place – you just have to be there to feel
it! We see other buildings of the Reich, standing today.
Plenty of photo-ops!
Ulrichsbergfest!
The “Memorial
on Ulrich’s Mountain” might be a good translation and it is here,
atop one of the highest mountains in the Tyrol of southern Austria that it takes
place the third Sunday of September each year.
Inside the ruined cathedral are memorial plaques to so many of the
divisions, brigades etc. of the fallen soldiers.
A huge cross stands near the cathedral.
The Memorial is to thank God for their safe return and to honor all those who
fell in battle, no matter what uniform was worn by the fallen soldier.
The
ladies are selling “Schnaps” on the mountain (photo left
above) and the money goes to the veterans.
What is ‘Schnapps’?
Ask a moonshiner about ‘white lightning’! The photo right is
the veterans in the ‘Honors’ section, and our Sharkhunters
group is seated right with them – up front!
The ceremonies, the dozens
& dozens of veterans with their flags, the Austrian Army band – and when
they play “der Gut Komerad” (the German version of Taps) tears
will fill your eyes and you’ll get a lump in your throat.
Our time on the mountain is priceless,
but the time is not finished. We
have our lunch with hundreds of veterans (photos below) on the mountain meadow
just below the area of the ceremony. The
brats and the beer are excellent! Bring
the camera.
Our time with these wonderful veterans isn’t finished yet.
Not one but TWO evenings we are guests of honor (photos
below) with hundreds of veterans from the Gebirgsjäger; the Falschirmjäger,
the Waffen SS and other divisions.
You will meet them!
Naturally,
there is MUCH more – too much to list it all.
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Nürnberg
The Name Says It
All!
We visit the famous places of the beginning of the Reich and we will learn why Nürnberg
was chosen – the Zeppelinfeld (photo below) where the speeches were made – we
stand on the same podium and we are in the OFF
LIMITS ‘Gold Room’ where Hitler held his receptions before his
speeches AND we’re INSIDE his
private office!
Bring the cameras.
We
visit this historic place – and you will stand right on the spot where the
leaders of the Reich stood to make their speeches.
You will be in this historic place – but no speeches, please.
Photos below - the fantastic "Gold Room" and Hitler's
suite of offices.
The Congreßhall (photo above)
was built like the Coliseum in Rome, but far larger.
It too, is OFF LIMITS but as we know, the term ‘Eingang Verboten!’
really means ‘Sharkhunters welcome!’
We
are IN Room 600 of the ‘Palace of Justice’ (photo
above) where the Nürnberg
‘War Crime Tribunals’ were held.
This is a normally operating courtroom, but we have it to ourselves for
an hour or so.
Photos?
Of course!
Italy, Croatia and
Slovenia
We spend time in the beautiful little
Italian town of Regipuglia, site of a huge battle in World War I where young
Erwin Rommel earned his Pour le Merit for bravery. The WW I battle
trenches are still there (below right), and we are free to wander this
battlefield, but we also pause to remember those who fell here. The War
Memorial (below left) is the largest in Europe.
We will spend a day and a night in Opatija, Croatia this year and enjoy an
evening dinner cruise on the beautiful Adriatic. This is the first time
EVER that Sharkhunters will be in Croatia.
We usually have a dinner stop in Slovenia.
Oktoberfest!
The World's Biggest Beer Party
You’ll walk where so many famous people have walked!
Can you handle it?
Due to new demand, we have reinstated our visit to Oktoberfest (photos
above) AND we
enjoy an evening dinner cruise on the Adriatic in Opatija, Croatia, a favorite
place of the Hapsburgs.
HIGH POINTS
of this “Patrol” include:
* Dinner with the veterans in a magnificent medieval castle;
* Shooting competition high in the Alps;
*
Dinners with vets of many branches of the Wehrmacht;
*
The magnificent ULRICHSBERGFEST Memorial;
*
Lunch with veterans on the mountain;
*
Stay in the hotel that housed Hitler’s personal guard;
*
Visit to the beautiful Eagle’s Nest;
*
We go INTO the bunkers under Hitler’s guard HQ;
*
We tour the famous buildings in München;
*
Visit the famous places in Nürnberg;
*
Dinner cruise on the Adriatic;
*
OKTOBERFEST!
Your low Sharkhunters “Patrol” price of only $2,976 includes all the
above plus all hotels (double occupancy), all transportation on our deluxe
motorcoach, all breakfasts, entry to all places listed, all meetings with the
veterans. Add $600 if you wish a
single room.
SAVE $200 if you register by 31 December 2007!
www.sharkhunters.com
for more details.
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(352) 637-2917
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