Vienna Historical Walking Tour: From Swastika to Red Star

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With the help of scores of photos and archive material, enjoy a historical walking tour through the city center which will evoke the atmosphere prevailing in Vienna in the wake of World War II. This 2-hour tour will be led by a professional licensed Vienna tour guide.After meeting the guide at Schwedenplatz, you'll begin a kind of time travel into the 1940's on a walking tour. Learn about the Allieed decision to liberate Vienna and their plans. See where the last street fighting had taken place between the Red Army and the remaining Wehrmacht Soldiers. Your guide will begin a discussion about how brave men and women in the last minute prevented Vienna from a total destruction through Hitler. The last days of WW2 have reached, one more time, a climax of brutality, disorientation among the population and an uncertain future. Visit the memorial where Gestapo Headquarters once stood. Then, your guide will shine a light on unknown perspectives about St. Stephan's Cathedral and the tour will end at the Heldenplatz, a square that attracted most different political orientations.