Venture out of Munich by local transport for a comprehensive small group tour through Dachau Concentration Camp and memorial site. An authorized guide will share important information concerning the desperate survivors who'd been tortured and exploited throughout the course of World War II. Today, Dachau Memorial Site is a place of memory, of pilgrimage and of education and makes for an illuminating day trip from Munich.
Highlights
- Small-group Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial tour from Munich
- Guided visit to the moving memorial site and exhibition center
- Choice of three morning tours
- Professional guide
- Return train and bus tickets to the memorial
Why Our Insiders Chose This Tour
The guides do an excellent job of explaining this infamous camp's role in the Holocaust and relating the survivors' stories. It's a sobering experience, but an important one to help ensure we never forget.
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Memorial at Dachau ...Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Small Group Tour from MunichPhoto by: ASHLEY Z
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Dachau Concentration Camp, ...Dachau guard towerPhoto by: Jeffrey R
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Grave of Thousands UnknownGrave of Thousands UnknownPhoto by: Alison W
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Gates into dachauthe gates into Dachau, ironically the writing says and quot;work sets you free' for those poor souls that went ...Photo by: Manuela V
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CrematoriumHere is one of the few original structures left on the site, the larger crematorium.Photo by: alwlights
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Gate entranceThe entrance to the camp, with the "Work makes you free" slogan in the center.Photo by: alwlights
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IMG_0437Where the original buildings once stood. All of them had been torn down and two recreated for visitorsPhoto by: Daniel C
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100_0861A view of the fence line.Photo by: Mikel M
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Looking down the path....This is looking towards the back of the camp - it really is beautiful for such a horrible place......The barracks ...Photo by: Rodney R
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OvensThese are the ones in the larger crematorium - they aren't sure that they were used during the war...regardless, it ...Photo by: Rodney R
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EntranceThis is what you see when entering - "Work Sets You Free"Photo by: Rodney R
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P1030794Memorial WallPhoto by: Tracy S
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IMG_0710[1]images in the museum , there's lot of the tiem propaganda , that's interesting , haven't seen it before .Photo by: fotomom
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IMG_0716[1]opening in the wall , from where the poison was thrown in , before the gas .Photo by: fotomom
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IMG_0707[1]the barracks are new , this is the bathroom it had.Photo by: fotomom
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IMG_0718[1]the entrance door to the campPhoto by: fotomom
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IMG_0703[1]this is all new , built as the old ones .Photo by: fotomom
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IMG_0715[1]electric fence .Photo by: fotomom
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IMG_0700[1]central building, inside is the museum . this is taken from the central yard.Photo by: fotomom
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2011-05-14_10-40-06_306The Unknown PrisionerPhoto by: Patricia S
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What You Can Expect
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Small Group Tour from Munich
Just outside the medieval town center of Dachau, a Memorial Site stands on the grounds of the former concentration camp. This was the 'parent' camp. Dachau was the 'Academy of Terror', the originator, role-model and training ground for the vast order of brutality that spread over half of Europe in the wake of the armies of the Third Reich, and which ultimately culminated in history's greatest crime, the Final Solution.
2005 marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of most Nazi concentration camps in the closing months of the Second World War. All over an exhausted Europe, advancing Allied soldiers set free the desperate survivors of camp after camp. The diseased, the starving, the barely alive emerged to tell a shocked and disbelieving world of the full horror of a network of systematized murder and degradation that had first been set in motion in 1933.
While each camp was responsible for its own particular form of barbarism, what distinguished Dachau is that almost everything that happened in the system as a whole happened at some level there. Almost every category of victim passed through its infamous Arbeit macht frei (Freedom through Work) gate, German dissidents, outspoken clergymen, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Jews, Polish civilians, all in all the citizens of some 34 nations. Today's Memorial Site combines the historical authenticity of the original environment and its many surviving buildings with the function of a modern exhibition center. It is a place of memory, of pilgrimage and of education.
Customer Reviews
June 2013
Really good tour! Greg our guide was absolutely brilliant. He managed a rather large group through public transport quite well. Dachau memorial is quite large...esp the exhibition...you could spend a full day if not days here. Being interested in WW2 history, we werent sure whether to take this tour, or go ourselves. You could easily go yourselves as its easy to get to from Munich (10 min train + 10 min bus ride). But we did enjoy taking the guided tour as Greg, explained everything really well...showed us the main buildings, gave us time to see things ourselves, and really built up the story of what happened there. In retrospect, I am glad we didnt go ourselves, as we would have probably gotten lost in the huge museum...and spent the whole day in the first room and then hurried through the rest at closing time. This way, we saw everything properly at a good pace!
June 2013
Guide was excellent.
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