WwII Tour guide in alsace

We have used a guide that would be perfect for you. Diane works with people that are doing what you want to do. She showed us Normandy and took us to some places I do not believe others go. She also showed us around Dieppe. My wife’s Great Uncle’s fought in the Dieppe Raid of 1942. I’m not sure if she does the Alsace area. I will pm you her email address and other info. Diane is from the USA and has lived and worked in France for 30 years.

Thank you ... I will contact her when I get your information

Normandy and Dieppe are hundreds of miles from the Alsace-Lorraine. I know of no organized tours of the Alsace battlefields, and there's not a lot of WWII stuff to see away from the Maginot Line forts and and the Westwall. There's a good museum in an old German bunkers system in Bad Bergzabern. You can find some markers in the Hurtgen, but they take some work. There's a line of the old Dragon Teeth off the main road above Wissembourg (again you'll expend some effort finding them.) I have not spent a lot of time around the Colmar pocket, but if you get a copy of Simon Forty's book, "From the Riviera to the Rhine" that's probably the best guide.

Not far from Colmar/Strasbourg is the only German concentration camp on French soil (Natzweiler Struthof), preserved as a memorial.
Besancon, further south has a Vauban fort that was used as a German HQ in WW2 for some particularly harsh anti-resistance operations. Also now a really good museum.
Neither are totally suitable for small children, in my view, although carefully guided school trips do go.

Good that you want to focus on Alsace and its liberation in 1944.

I would suggest asking in the Strasbourg Tourist Office. I've never been there as I am far more focused on Lorraine and Metz relative to war history.

The last two trips in France in 2023 and that of last summer I asked in several Tourist Offices when I came upon them in the centre ville...interesting on the information available.

I might suggest you simply do a little research. There are many online resources and historical videos. I have seen two American Sherman tanks fairly recently. One is right in the middle of Colmar. And another is at the side of the road near one of the Plus Beau villages outside of Colmar.

However, I am not entirely sure the locals have fond memories of WWII. The central square in Strasbourg which I think is called Kleber Square, had a new name from 1940-1945 - I think it was called Adoph Hitler Square. Alsace was conquered by the Germans in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and in the possession of Germany until WWI, and so two decades later Germany "liberated" Alsace and recruited many of its young men for service in the Germany army including some SS divisions that were guarding Hitler at the end. I was staying in Selestat between Strasbourg and Colmar and reading up on the cute town, and during WWII, there was a battle between US and German forces, and the local civilians were informing the Germans where the US positions were. During the battle of the bulge (in Belgium) there was a mini-battle of the buldge in the Colmar area, and I saw one videio by a WWII historian on YT which talked about an incident where two panzers took out a dozen of our Shermans.

Responding to what someone else mentioned about museums concerning WWII in other areas of France .... I did visit a French Resistance Museum in Lyon. I think Lyon was one of the hotbeds of resistance. That's where that notorious German officer Klaus Barbie, the butcher of Lyon was operating.

Its also the place where American OSS agent Virginia Hill was financing, arming, and leading a resistance movement - but it was betrayed, and most of her team were arrested, and she barely got out by hiking over the mountains into spain with only one foot. She later parachuted back into occupied france and lead other resistance movements. There are books and a movie about her.

There is also Metz where Patton's "Iron men of Metz" besieged a fortified complex full of Germans at great cost. I visited the town but not see whats left of the fortress.

There are also a number of Uboat pens still very much intact - La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Lorient, etc. These things are massive and ugly and no amount of bombs seemed to put a dent in them.

There is also the resort town of Vichy - the site of the collaborationist government under occupation.

In 2022 I booked a 1 day minivan tour from Colmar with
l''Alsaciette that included some WWII stops including lunch in the village of Niedermohrschwihr liberated by the 28th Infantry Division. Perhaps they could arrange something for you.

In St. Avoid there is the Lorraine American Cemetery the largest one of WWII deceased in Europe. It is only about eighty miles from Colmar.