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Dachau Concentration Camp Holocaust Museum

I have to admit I have a lot of fondness for Germany. Lots of fascinating places and I truly enjoy meine Deutsches freunden. But it’s hard to avoid that they went through a bad patch a few years back, led by the guy with the painter’s brush mustache. A trip to the boisterous song-filled beer halls of the Octoberfest-famous southern Germany state of Bavaria now seems incomplete without a stop at the semi-preserved concentration camp at Dachau one of the first discovered by Allied Forces. Dachau is an historic small town now a suburb of the Bavarian capital city (See Hitler’s Munich Walking Tours) with its own palace and a very nice old section, but now mostly known for its dark tourist attraction and its ashen memories.

Most of the camp is empty ground with the foundations of former barracks laid out on barren earth, surrounded by a pitted and rusted concrete and barbed wire fence and guard towers. The main building of the camp which housed the Germany camp soldiers remains as an original and has has been turned into a holocaust museum, with photographs and the dark story properly told to German schoolchildren who are dutifully bussed out on field trips for a dose of historical hard medicine. But the most striking building remaining is the intact crematorium and “bathhouse”. More bone-chilling than any horror film is to step into the shower room and look up to the metal outlets in the tile ceiling a few inches over your head installed for Cyclon-B gas. Although placards claim gas was never used there, only in the death camps of Poland, I still wouldn't want to be inside when they closed the sealed metal doors. Fortunately today, we are able to walk out the door on the other side to pass by the ovens of the crematorium. The experience is unforgettable and a walk through this place might be useful for say, the President of Iran. The Dachau Concentration Camp Holocaust Museum is about a 20 minute drive from the center of Munich. You can take the S2 S-Bahn train to Dachau Main rail station and a ten minute walk to the camp following the signs or take the local bus for the short ride. Bus excursion tours are available in Munich from Grayline tours and other operators. © Bargain Travel Europe

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