• Memories from Munchen Part II – Dachau, where you can only begin to imagine the horrors of the Holocaust

    Unfortunately not everything about Germany is wonderful and exciting. On my last days in Munchen I decided I couldn’t leave without visiting the Dachau concentration camp, which lies only 12 km away.    The KZ Gedenkstätte is free to visit, you only have to pay for parking (3 EUR per car) and for the audio guide which I totally recommend as it explains a lot more than the different information boards do. The Dachau concentration camp opened on March 22, 1933 after Adolf Hitler has been appointed Reich Chancellor. The camp, which was destined for political prisoners, served as a model for all concentration camps which were opened afterwards. It…