How long does dachau take

There is no special exhibition for children at the Dachau Memorial Site, and some of the content may not be appropriate for children under It is therefore recommended that children visit the Memorial Site only when accompanied by their parents.

All of the programs offered by the Education Department are for visitors aged 12 and above. Most visitors need half a day to explore the grounds and look at the various exhibitions. If you have little time available, then we recommend that you set priorities and focus on your key points of interest. I visited Dachau with my husband and 3 month old in April We had planned to see the Olympic Stadium but got on the wrong road and ended up at the camp.

It was a visit I shall never forget. Reading your comments brought back a lot of memories of walking through the grounds, seeing the photos on the walls, the memorials, the ovens. I remember walking out the back of the room with the ovens and saw a beautiful stone menorah.

I remember one area where we crossed over a river. My husband told me the river was filled with blood during the war. Seeing the camp was very emotional for me, but I am glad we went. A memory I will forever hold onto of a human tragedy that must never happen again. How you meant to go somewhere else and ended up at Dachau — like it was meant to be. The stone menorah is still there, and you still get to walk over the river. Thanks for your comments Deborah!

Thank you for the well done article on Dachau. It brought back many memories. I was Stationed in Augsburg, 50 years ago. Dachau was about halfway from Augsburg to Munich and the shortest way was to drive through Dachau.

Finally, the military prison was in Dachau. I took my wife and kids to Europe in and we all went to Dachau, as one of the posts said, a sobering experience for all.

This was my third trip to Dachau, I went twice in , once before the memorial and once after, and my recollection was the more sobering experience was before the memorial. Thank you for your comment and your story, Don!

I agree, I hope the memorial stays open forever and that everyone gets a chance to experience it. My friend and I are visiting Dachau tomorrow and it will be for both of us our first concentration camp. You said it best, hope to have a good day which means learn a lot. Thanks again. I remember the KZ shortly after the war. Then many years later again but I was retired.

I was rather sad that the place looked more like a city park. I feel it takes away from the horror the those who lived through that there and those who did not come back out the main gate. A well kept clean park. It would give people a real sense to smell and see the way it really was. Wow, I bet it was much different so soon after the war.

Hard to believe that was just 25 years after Dachau was liberated and the war ended. We had a different experience than those described here. Yes, we were young and poor and actually followed it! We thought we had allowed enough time to get to Dachau and see everything, but we got lost and could NOT find it!

There were absolutely NO road signs to the camp. And Dachau was just one of dozens of concentration camps established by the Third Reich throughout Germany. At least 30, people were registered as dead during that period. After the SS abandoned the camp on April 28, , the liberating U. Army moved in to take charge the following day. When they arrived, they discovered some 67, living prisoners—all of them on the verge of death—at Dachau and its subsidiary camps. The reality of what happened at Dachau—where prisoners were stripped of all human rights and dignity, turned into slave laborers, and tortured, beaten, shot, hung, starved, lethally injected, and used for medical experiments—is the reality of the barbarism that took hold of German society during World War II and led to the Holocaust.

Dachau is not an easy place to visit, but it is an important place to visit. James Martin is a travel writer and photographer who writes, photographs, and edits stories about western Europe.

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