Battlefield sites

Germany & Austria 1945: all 26 sites

The places of the last months of the war in Europe: the Rhine, Bavaria with Landsberg, Dachau and Munich, Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest, and Austria, where Easy Company ended its war at Zell am See and Kaprun.

Trip ideas: Band of Brothers sites in Germany & Austria

The Rhine — Cologne to Remagen

• Ludendorff Bridge, Remagen — Peace MuseumBridge · 9th Armored, 7 March 1945
• Cologne — cathedral and Hohenzollern bridgeCity
• Zons — the walled town on the RhineTown · 506th sector
• Stürzelberg — the Rhine dike

Berlin & the Elbe

• Torgau — Elbe DayD-Day · The Elbe · 25 April 1945
• Berlin — Reichstag and the Führerbunker siteD-Day · Berlin · 30 April – 2 May 1945

Bavaria — Landsberg, Dachau & Munich

• Nuremberg — Documentation Centre & ZeppelinfeldD-Day · Bavaria · the rallies and the trials
• Landsberg am Lech — old town and prisonTown
• European Holocaust Memorial — Kaufering VIIMemorial
• Hurlach — Kaufering IV camp site
• Dachau Concentration Camp MemorialMemorial · liberated 29 Apr 1945
• Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National SocialismMuseum

Berchtesgaden & the Eagle's Nest

• Dokumentation ObersalzbergMuseum
• Berghof site and the Obersalzberg walk
• Berchtesgaden — town and the Berchtesgadener Hof siteTimeline 12 & 15
• Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden — salt mineBerchtesgaden
• Kehlsteinhaus — the Eagle's NestSite
• KönigsseeLake
• Bad Reichenhall
• SalzburgAustria

Austria — Zell am See, Kaprun & Mauthausen

• Zell am See — lake promenadeTown · Timeline 16 & 19
• Grand Hotel Zell am See — regimental HQSite
• Kaprun — village and castleVillage
• Kaprun high-mountain dams (Mooserboden)Site · slave-labour history
• Saalfelden — the surrender basinTown
• Mauthausen MemorialD-Day · Austria · the camps · 5 May 1945