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It felt awkward to ask someone how to get to the memorial site of the Dachau concentration camp. Thankfully, there was a posted sign showing where to get on the bus. Buses leave fairly regularly from the town center. It doesn't take very long to get to the memorial site.
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3 of 3 people found this review helpful
At about 1 hour from Munich you will find the village of Dachau. Surely you know this infamous place due to the first concentration camp located here during the Nazi time. It worked somehow as a precursor for what followed in larger scale – in a terror like scale.
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Mar 30, 2008
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful
The crematorium was separated from the prisoners’ camp at the time. However, they already put up a bridge to connect the two places. My fiancé was really shocked when she saw all the ovens and heard a guide explaining everything happened there. She didn’t even want to walk through the room...
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Mar 30, 2008
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful
It is true, the scenery was really beautiful at the time we were there but definitely not enjoyable. I was to this concentration camp before with some of my friends, but the feelings were like the very first time after all. In the surrounding area, we saw a lot of different sculptures about all...
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Mar 30, 2008
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful
It is not that we had never heard of this concentration camp before, it was just that we were absolutely surprised and totally shocked about the feelings that we had when we first arrived there. It felt as if we were really there at the time the event took place. The gate looked pretty much...
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Mar 29, 2008
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful
We got some problem with the map somehow when we arrived to Dachau train station. We didn’t know which bus to take and Germany was to us kind of famous about their unfriendliness and unhelpfulness in services. We didn’t really want to ask any of them and thought of just taking a taxi to get...
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Mar 29, 2008
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful
According to the map and all the information that the people at the information point gave us, we took the S2 from Munich Central Station in the direction of Petershausen. If any of you are wondering about the price of the ticket, don’t be worried. You can get a so-called Bayern Ticket for 5...
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Mar 28, 2008
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful
That was in March, when the whole south part of Germany was covered by white snow. We had that crazy idea of going somewhere that we had never been to before. My fiancé asked her cousin and one of her cousin’s girl friend to come with us. We actually wanted to go to the zoo or a so called...
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Well, this is definitely an interesting place to see, as Dachau was the first concentration camp built in the second World War. More than 30.000 people died or were killed here. You get to see the gas chambers, but apparently these were never used. The barracks are not to be seen anymore, except...
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I went here in 2006 and found it to be one of the saddest stops on my journey through Germany. At the beginning gates you will see the slogan, work sets you free. This is imprinted right into the main gate entrance. These haunting words can be found at many of the German camps.
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