Activities: So, the next day in Munich I went to Dachau with my roommates. Only a few minutes outside Munich by train Dachau was the first concentration camp opened by Nazi Germany in 1933. When I first arrived at the site I thought I would have been missing out on information without a guide/an audioguide. But as it turns out of the barracks has been converted into a very informative timeline museum. It’s very well done, beginning with the founding and construction of the camp (it was, at first, an abandoned munitions factory) and ending not where you would think, at the liberation of the camp, but it continues on detailing how the site was then used as an internment camp, a refugee camp and finally ending at the conversion of the site into a memorial.
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