Champagne, kings, Christianity and Germany’s WWII surrender: Reims, France is ‘intoxicating’ [Video]

Reims, France, boasts the best of European travel condensed into a single little city. 

It’s the home of crowned kings, Christian faith, Gothic majesty and luminescent wine. 

It’s also where a sad, weary world toasted the defeat of Adolf Hitler and his evil National Socialist German Workers Party in World War II. 

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The concentration of royal, religious, architectural, culinary and historical attractions makes Reims a bucket-list destination for many Americans.

“Reims is intoxicating,” Rick Steves, host of the PBS series “Rick Steves’ Europe,” says on his website. 

It was in Reims that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower oversaw the final Allied advance into the heart of Germany in 1945. 

And it’s where he accepted the surrender of the German High Command in the wee hours of a Wednesday morning in May. 

Gen. Alfred Jodl signed on behalf of Germany. 

He was executed for war crimes …