Colmar Pocket Tour Description

The Colmar Pocket is one of the most overlooked campaigns of the Western Front — and one of the most brutal. Between November 1944 and February 1945, Allied forces fought village by village through Alsace to destroy the German 19th Army and reach the Rhine. Total casualties on both sides exceeded 59,000. Four Medals of Honour were awarded. Heinrich Himmler directed German ground operations in person, and almost nobody has heard of it.

This guided Colmar Pocket battlefield tour covers eight stops in chronological order across the key sites in Alsace — from the Ill River crossings at Sélestat to the Audie Murphy Memorial at Holtzwihr, the American Memorial at Sigolsheim, and the brutal final street battle at Jebsheim. The tour ends at the Musée Mémorial des Combats de la Poche de Colmar in Turckheim, the only museum dedicated entirely to this campaign.

Tour Highlights

• Four Medals of Honour. 59,000 casualties. The forgotten winter campaign of the West

• Walk the ground where Audie Murphy made his famous one-man stand near Holtzwihr

• The American Memorial at Sigolsheim — panoramic view over the entire Colmar battlefield

• Jebsheim's Mill Cross memorial — every unit, three armies, one inscription

• Eight battlefield stops in chronological order — from Sélestat to Turckheim