This four-day tour to northern Poland is designed as a direct prelude to our Poland At War Comprehensive 14-Day Tour for those who wish to engage in a more comprehensive experience of WWII in Poland.
If you are not joining us on Poland at War Tours’ Comprehensive 14-Day Tour, you are more than welcome to join us on this four-day standalone tour to northern Poland, taking in many of Poland’s significant sites of WWII history.
The tour features guided tours in Gdansk and Torun, and visits to significant wartime sites, such as the Wolf’s Lair (Wolfsschanze) and Stutthof concentration camp.
Explore the full itinerary below. If you have any questions, please get in touch.
On day one we leave Warsaw and head northeast to locate the Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s eastern most HQ during WWII. The Wolf’s Lair is also the site of the “20 July Plot”, a significant attempt on Hitler’s life on 20 July 1944 immortalised in the movie Valkyrie. From the Wolf’s Lair, we travel to the town of Olsztyn, former home of Copernicus, where we check into our hotel for the night.
On day two we travel to the beautiful Baltic city of Gdansk, one of the major cities of the historic Hanseatic League. In Gdansk we visit the Westerplatte Memorial where the first shots of WWII were fired. We also visit the Polish Post Office of Danzig that the Poles defended vigorously in the opening days of the war. We complete the tour with a visit to the Grom-Class destroyer ORP Blyskawica (“Lightening”) that fought gallantly with the Royal Navy in WWII. She is the oldest preserved destroyer in the world.
On our third day together, we explore the Polish Museum of the Second World War, one of the world’s largest museums dedicated to the conflict. After lunch you have the option to join us on a journey to Stutthof Concentration Camp – the first Concentration Camp established in Poland that initially held Polish Intelligentsia. Infamously, Stutthof is the only known place during WWII where soap was produced from human fat.
On our fourth and final day we visit the site of the Nazi Megastructure DAG Bromberg Exploseum, the second largest munitions and explosives factory in the Third Reich. If you have been good, we will then stop by the Gingerbread factory in Torun before heading back to Warsaw.
