On Wednesday, May 29, 2024 to pay respects to the innocent victims of Hitler’s Nazi regime I participated in a guided walking tour of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. I walked to the München Hauptbahnhof train station and took the S-2 commuter train, 21 minutes to the city of Dachau and then the public 726 bus, 45 minutes to the Memorial Site. (44 second video below.)
You can also walk to the Memorial Site from the train station along the “Path of Remembrance”. The two mile path also takes about 45 minutes. The path follows the route that most prisoners took to return to the concentration camp.
My guide provided a respectful and educational overview of the horrors inflicted by the fascist Nazi SS and their collaborators during the Third Reich of World War II.
“Dachau,” stands for all the concentration camps that the National Socialists built in their sphere of influence. Today, by German law, EVERY Germany student must visit a concentration camp and learn of its horrors.
Dachau was Heinrich Himmler’s first concentration camp. It was established in 1933 primarily for the detention of political prisoners and eventually, undesirables of the Third Reich.
I had a somber walk through the remaining buildings and facilities of the infamous camp. It now serves as a memorial site and exhibition space showcasing the ruins of the notorious camp and providing insights into the Nazi’s regime’s rule during World War II.
My guided commented that the SS were cowards. As a German man you were either sent to the Eastern Front to fight the Russians or to torture prisoners in Concentration Camps!
The guide also commented that the residents of Dachau could not have avoided seeing hundreds of prisoners marching in and out of the concentration camp to work as slave workers on farms and in factories!
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