Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site

Why go

The memorial site says the Nazi regime opened a concentration camp in Dachau on 22 March 1933; more than 200,000 prisoners from over 40 nations were held in it and its subcamps, at least 41,500 people died there of hunger and illness, from torture, were murdered or perished from the consequences of their imprisonment, and U.S. Army units liberated the prisoners on 29 April 1945. The memorial site was created on the initiative of the survivors' Comité International de Dachau and opened in May 1965; its main exhibition, opened in 2003, follows the 'path of the prisoners', and since 2003 the Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten has been responsible for it. The memorial describes itself as a place of remembrance with the character of a cemetery and asks visitors to follow its guidelines for visitors; its FAQ says no appointment is needed for a visit, and its pages advise that some content may not be suitable for children (under 12 in the guidelines, under 13 in the FAQ). This record is the memorial site, not the historical camp, and it lies in the town of Dachau, not in Munich.