Visiting the Concentration Camp in Dachau

After my cousin, and Mark telling me to visit the Concentration Camp in Dachau, we just had to check it out. After staying at Hotel Hubertus in Karlsfeld, we made out way to the Concentration Camp.

It’s Free

To visit the concentration camp in Dachau, it is free. If you want an audio guide, it was about 3 euro’s, but you don’t really need one as you can just join one of the tour guides. Unfortunately, we were unsure where they started because we joined a tour group in the middle, but the guide we had was really good. After that tour, we found another guide (because there isn’t many guides that speak English) but he had a pommy accent and was somewhat hard to understand. He was telling more of a story, rather than the facts as like the other tour guide, so we left.

We spent over 4.5 hours there – there is so much to see, and so much to read. In the end, we got tired of reading every board as there was just so much information.

The concentration camp was extremely busy and every child in Germany has to visit at least one concentration camp during a school excursion.

The majority of the land in the concentration camp is empty because these buildings have been demolished as they were old. These are not the original buildings, but they are copies. Instead of building another 100, they only built 2 to show. There’s no point building them all when people will only see one as they are all the same.

These are the gates leading out to the concentration camp with security and head office above.

A panoramic view with the museum on the left, the gates in the middle, and the cabins on the right.

The bed’s the prisoners had to sleep in.

The toilets.

Each one of these squares in the two pictures above represents one building where the prisons used to sleep.

Looking down the centre of the camp into the museum, which was where the kitchen and everything else was.

One the right was an electric fence and a moat. Escape was almost was impossible. Anyone who stepped on the green grass was first shot (shot to kill). If you imagine to get through the water, you would have been electrocuted by the electric fence.

This is inside the gas chambers. Because the prisons were so dirty living in the camp, they were awarded and told they can get a free shower. In the room before, they would take all their clothes off, and then walk into the gas chambers. On the roof, it looked like showerheads, but they were fake. Once everyone was in, they would put the gas in through like a laundry shoot and gas everyone which would take about 30 minutes.

Once everyone has been gassed, they will cremate the bodies in these.

This is inside the large museum  building that just had rooms as far as the eye can see.

There were hundreds of these information boards to read.

If you are in Germany and have the time to visit Dachau’s concentration camp, it is a really good experience. There is a lot of history and stories that you couldn’t even believed could happened.