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Full Dachau small group tour from Munich via train
5 h
Small Group
By train
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Stop At: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Pater-Roth-Str. 2A, 85221, Dachau, Bavaria Germany
Leaving Marien Platz down town Munich at 9:30 you will travel via train with your authorized guide to the Dachau memorial site.
Our 5 hour tour of the Dachau Concentration Camp will cover all areas accessible to the public and the following.
• Rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party throughout the 1920s up to his appointment as Chancellor in 1933
• Burning of the Reichstag and the formation of concentration camps
• The roll Dachau played as model for other camps
• 3 major phases of the camp system
• SS training facility
• Jourhaus (main gate house) with the infamous slogan ARBEIT MACHT FREI
• Liberation of the camp and the aftermath
• What happened at Dachau between 1945 and the unveiling of the Documentation center in 1965
• An in depth look at the concentration camp system, Ghettos and Extermination camps
• Registration of prisoners and their various categories
• Kristallnacht – 1938 pogrom against the Jews and the first major influx of Jewish prisoners at Dachau
• Methods of torture and punishments
• Bathhouse
• International memorial and sculpture
• Medical experiments on prisoners
• A short color film of Dachau
• The bunker – prison within the camp
• Daily lives of the prisoners and the barracks
• Religious memorials
• Perimeter fence
• Gas Chamber and Crematorium
Duration: 5 hours
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This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Pater-Roth-Str. 2A, 85221, Dachau, Bavaria Germany
Leaving Marien Platz down town Munich at 9:30 you will travel via train with your authorized guide to the Dachau memorial site.
Our 5 hour tour of the Dachau Concentration Camp will cover all areas accessible to the public and the following.
• Rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party throughout the 1920s up to his appointment as Chancellor in 1933
• Burning of the Reichstag and the formation of concentration camps
• The roll Dachau played as model for other camps
• 3 major phases of the camp system
• SS training facility
• Jourhaus (main gate house) with the infamous slogan ARBEIT MACHT FREI
• Liberation of the camp and the aftermath
• What happened at Dachau between 1945 and the unveiling of the Documentation center in 1965
• An in depth look at the concentration camp system, Ghettos and Extermination camps
• Registration of prisoners and their various categories
• Kristallnacht – 1938 pogrom against the Jews and the first major influx of Jewish prisoners at Dachau
• Methods of torture and punishments
• Bathhouse
• International memorial and sculpture
• Medical experiments on prisoners
• A short color film of Dachau
• The bunker – prison within the camp
• Daily lives of the prisoners and the barracks
• Religious memorials
• Perimeter fence
• Gas Chamber and Crematorium
Duration: 5 hours
Included
- Fully licensed professional guide
- Public transport costs to and from the memorial site
Not included
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Students can select the youth price category. Please note that the valid ID card must be presented on the day of the tour.
- Refreshments and snacks are not available during the tour. Refreshments can be purchased at several locations at the station before meeting the tour.
- The tour will be a mixture of indoors and out. Please check the weather beforehand and dress appropriately
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
Features
Tourism
95%
Cultural
80%
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The guide was amazing and very knowledgeable. This tour was somber but so important. Our guide was excellent. The buses never showed up at the end of the tour and we all thought Viator should arrange shuttles instead of relying on city buses. Not the tour guides fault we had to walk to the train station!!
This was an excellent tour and a good use of the time allocated to see such a large and important site. Operator (James) was polite, knowledgeable and organized. Highly recommended.
James was our guide for the day and was very considerate in making sure that everyone's needs were met, reading the group (e.g. giving breaks from walking as necessary) and that he was communicating clearly for all to understand. The information he provided was thoughtful, thought-provoking, and respectful of the site/memorial. I personally thought his purported Welsh accent was a little to Australian-sounding for my tastes (kidding, James!). James was great, and I would recommend him to anyone.
I have been to Dachau before, but learned little because I did not have a guide. James was our guide and shuttled a couple dozen people on the train from Munich to Dachau, then marched us very quickly through the site. His knowledge of the time was excellent - I learned a lot from his initial 10 minute synopsis of WWII and the Third Reich. However, he speaks very quickly in his Welsh accent, which makes it difficult to stick with his explanations. Dachau is crowded - really crowded with tourists! We were given little time to absorb any of the information or sites. The tour was very informative, but James did not like being asked any questions - he would either answer curtly, or say that he would cover it later. He did not seem open to learning anything new about this challenging topic. If you really want to see an interesting concentration camp, go to Mauthausen near Linz Austria. You don't need a guide there - everything is explained in both German and English and you really get to know individual people and stories through the excellent, in depth displays. Mauthausen has much more left of the original camp and you really feel like you are 'there'. Most people come away from Dachau with a bit of an empty feeling, but Mauthausen changes your soul.
James is an excellent and respectful guide. He is extremely knowledgeable about the camp and the history around it and my group walked away with new knowledge. A big thank you to him for being so helpful.
We signed up for a tour because we wanted the kids to be able to understand what they were seeing and be able to ask questions. While the guide was nice, he spoke so quickly and did not attempt to tall to the kids at all or explain things in a way they might understand. They had no idea what he was talking about half the time. Honestly, I wasn"t always completely sure! It was rushed and I wish we had just done it on our own.
Our tour was excellent! James was very well versed in his knowledge about WWII, concentration camps in general, and especially Dachau. He set a very respectful tone and it was obvious that he had such a healthy respect for a place with such a dark and emotional history.