THE D DAY TOUR Opt for an entire thematic day centred on the Second World War and the D Day Landing beaches tour. This package, colloquially named “Station to Station”, offers you an optimal comfort of visit while ensuring the shuttles between Caen railway station and the main visiting sites in an air-conditioned minivan. The D Day tour includes: | - the pickup at Caen railway station by a bilingual guide in an air-conditioned vehicle | | - the guided tour of the Second World War area in Le Mémorial de Caen | | - the lunch at Le Mémorial de Caen | | - the guided tour of the American and Anglo-Canadian beaches with a bilingual guide | | - an illustrated handbook about the Normandy landings | | - the return to Caen railway station |
NB : For security reasons, it's not possible to bring children under 2 on board the guided tours for Individuals (D Day Landing beaches).
A guide from Le Mémorial de Caen waits for you at Caen railway station in an air-conditioned vehicle.
Your trip begins with the guided tour of the Second World War area of Le Mémorial de Caen. You slowly enter a spiral which proposes a retrospective about a fragile time between the two wars, which suffered the rise of Nazism and the step closer to war. The next space tells you the Occupied France through both movements which divided the population at that time: Collaboration and Resistance. | |  | From the "phoney war" to defeat It was in a weary France that war broke out on September 3, 1939, no longer on the offensive. Soldiers in the "phoney war" waited patiently for the time to fight, entrenched behind the Maginot Line, reputed as being uncrosable, while civilians contributed however they could to the war. The deportation of repression Keeping a shotgun, cutting a telephone cable, lodging an Allied pilot or informing the British... were all acts of resistance severely curbed by the Reich, SS and sinister Gestapo. |  |
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