I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 626. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about Churchill and Patton and Hitler.

The movies The Battle of the Bulge Band of Brothers and A Bridge Too Far

as we go to Europe on the liberation route.

Maybe not, maybe not to the day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk

about the liberation of Europe in World War II. I'd like to welcome back to the show Gary Arndt who has come to talk to us this time

about the liberation route in Western Europe. Gary welcome back to the show

after a very brief hiatus this time.

Thank you I think this is show number 14 for me.

It is well we didn't want to leave it on 13 for very long.

I'm about to travel including the amateur traveler trip where I'll be traveling with some of you.

And so I'm trying to get a number of shows in the canon.

Gary had just done the trip that we did an episode about two episodes ago now on Switzerland but you did this trip before that so we're

actually doing these a little out of order in terms of how you did it but this is

an interesting trip especially as we're recording here in 2018, because there's

some big anniversaries coming up here in 2019.

The 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, which will be a big to-do.

That's part of the liberation route that we'll be talking about.

Now I had not heard of the liberation route, so tell me what it is.

It's relatively new.

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