The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site during the 18-day self-guided tour in Germany. This station is the most heavy and difficult to write chapter. Until recently, the children of Hsinchu Guangfu Middle School imitated the costumes of the World War II Nazis, which made me think it should be. When this record is sorted out, this memorial hall preserves many precious historical materials and restores the scene at that time. You can understand how people have been treated and persecuted when you walk in.
Transportation: How to get to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Hall?
The fare structure of the city of Munich is divided into four concentric zones (white), green (green), yellow (yellow), and red (red) from the inside out. One day The ticket is mainly divided into Inner District (white), Munich XXL (white/green), Outer District (green/yellow/red), Entire Network (white/green/yellow/red), and tours to most of the attractions in the city center , You can buy tickets in the Inner District area, and there are still 3-day coupons available in the white area of the city center, which is definitely more cost-effective.
This day’s itinerary is mainly planned to go to the attractions in the outer area of Munich. Choose the Dachau Concentration Camp located in the green zone. Tickets for Munich XXL (white and green zones) are purchased. You can take the transportation in the white and green zones. The upper limit is The ticket for a group of five persons is 15.4 Euros.We take the S4 (S-Bahn) from München-Trudering station near the hotel to München-Berg am Laim station and change to S2 (S-Bahn) to Dachau Bahnhof station.
Outside the station, you can take route bus 724 or 726 and get off at the KZ-Gedenkstätte stop. You can walk to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site in less than 3 minutes.
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▲ Munich XXL group ticket.
▲ Change trains at München-Berg am Laim station and take S2 (S-Bahn) to Dachau Bahnhof station.
▲ Arrive at the station in about 40 minutes.
▲ Get out of the station and wait here for the bus to transfer to the memorial hall.
▲ Please refer to the actual timetable of the bus for readers.
▲ The name of the station will be displayed on the bus. We usually go to and many tourists get off at the stop of the memorial hall. Just follow the crowd.
▲ Ready to go to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Hall.
Summary of visit information of Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Hall
The memorial is open from 9 am to 5 pm every day. There is no need to pay for the visit, but the audio guide can be used at the counter for a fee. The audio guide includes German, English, French and Chinese. It has been used in textbooks and online Information or movies understand the appearance of the concentration camp, but the various historical materials and displays of the camp can better understand the background through the audio guide. Therefore, it is recommended to rent a guide for 3.5 euros (single).
There is a simple restaurant next to the lobby that sells a variety of cooked food and drinks. If you are tired of walking and want to have a rest and eat, you can come here for dinner.Although the menu is written in German, I generally know which dishes are in German. At this time, I have to make good use of tools to help. Wendy has downloaded the Google Translate app before departure. You can know what dishes are by typing in a word. Just look at what other people order, or take a picture.
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▲ The audio guide manual is also in Chinese, which can assist in the operation and understanding of the memorial.
▲ The restaurant next to the lobby is where you can order and pick up meals.
▲ The dishes we ordered that day.
▲ The manual must be held and read to know which number to enter, and the audio guide will tell the story of this location.
▲ Taking this point as an example, here was a train transporter who was imprisoned to a concentration camp, which shows the track of the railway in the past.
▲ Passing the gate of this observation deck, it is Dachau Concentration Camp.
Introduction and experience of visiting Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Hall
Perhaps you have seen a scene in a movie where the Germans were fighting or imprisoning and transporting Jews during World War II. Take the movie "X-Men: First War" as an example. Magneto King Eric was forced to separate from his mother when he was a child, and the German Nazis talked about it. When he left, a string of numbers on his arm was that the Nazis stabbed them forcibly in order to identify them. In the play, the scientist Dr. Schmidt (the other identity is Sebastian Shang) discovered that Eric used his mind to make a metal fence serious. It bends and deforms, and therefore used him to experiment, forcing to show the ability to move the coin, otherwise he would kill his mother.
The above scenario is related to the Dachau concentration camp we visited, because this was the first concentration camp built by the German Nazis in 1933 and became a model template for more than 1,000 concentration camps (yes, you are right, the number is as high as more than 32 Block), the entire camp contains XNUMX barracks and cremation sites. The barracks are used not only as a residence for a large number of prisoners, but also for holding anti-Nazi prisons and medical experiments. Not only that, prisoners are often executed in an open space. In order to avoid concentration camp prisoners from escaping, surrounding It is made of deep trenches, high walls and observation decks.Today, there are several churches behind the concentration camp, allowing religious power to soothe people's unbearable painful memories in the past.
▲ This German sentence says "Work brings you freedom." The iron gate was stolen in 2014 and was found this year.
▲ This is a prison cell, which is furnished with text, photos and projections.
▲ The suspended prisoner will not be allowed to sleep until the willpower is insufficient.
▲ The ruins of the Dachau Concentration Camp are cleaned up and tell you the stories that happened at that time in various ways.
Regarding the inmates in the concentration camps, their lives here are far beyond imagination
The square of Noord is the place where the innocent victims of the Dachau Concentration Camp will be called up every day, heading towards the museum. The roof of the building in front of me once read "Es gibt einen Weg zur Freiheit, seine Meilensteine heißen: Gehorsam, Fleiß, Ehrlichkeit, Ordnung, Sauberkeit, Nüchternheit, Wahrhaftigkeit, Opfersinn und Liebe zum Vaterland.” The superficial translation means “This is the road to freedom, and you must be obedient, diligent, honest, orderly, tidy, sober, true, and sacrificed. And love the motherland.” However, nearly 21 people entered the Dachau concentration camp, and as many as 3 died based on the record alone. It seems that the true history of this sentence has been rewarded with a slap in the face.
Concentration camps are screened by race, religion, homosexual gender, and age. These people are forced to shave their hair, disinfect, and take photos to establish files, and they are numbered to confirm the number of people.Everyone’s personal belongings were confiscated and turned into Nazi war resources. In the concentration camp, the only property was his prison uniform.If people with expertise and knowledge are required to produce materials and weapons needed for warfare, others are laying railways/roads, sand quarries, etc.Sometimes, just to entertain these German officers, they asked to dig a hole at will in the morning and fill the same hole in the afternoon.
In the middle and late stages of the war, the prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp had to face an extremely inhumane test—a living experiment. The medical experiment project included putting the prisoner in hot water from freezing conditions, recording the time of recovery, and putting the prisoner in high pressure. The cabin is continuously pressurized and the lethal air pressure is recorded.
▲ The handwriting on the roof is no longer, but historical materials tell us what they have experienced.
▲ Bring a new generation of young people to learn about history and feel it.
▲ There were countless victims, and their backgrounds were recorded one by one.
▲ Appliances used by people at that time.
▲ Remember, you have to check the location of the manual to hear the correct navigation information.
▲ Plan of Dachau Concentration Camp.
▲ In October 1968, artist Nandor Glid dedicated the sculpture to the prisoners who died in the concentration camp.
▲ The Dachau Concentration Camp is like a harsh reform-through-labor camp. The prisoners are forced to engage in high-intensity labor. The managers fallacy that mechanical and repetitive labor can "correct" their minds.
▲ The strong prisoners are sent to do hard labor and are used for living experiments, while the old, the weak, the sick, the women and children...they are waiting for them in the gas chamber and the crematorium.
▲ The symbol of the Nazis is based on the skinny bones of the victims. It is not cool and handsome at all.
▲ Now is the cleaned up environment, which was not the case back then. Prisoners are often tortured to inhuman form by labor, environment, and disease.
▲ We listened carefully to the guided tour and ended the campsite visit, ready to go to the next stop in Nymphenburg.
Conclusion
In addition to the exhibits at the Dachau Concentration Camp site, most of the original more than 30 barracks were left with only the foundations. Due to our schedule, we had to rush to the next scenic spot. We could not go to the church and the burning place at the back. Frankly speaking, we only finished watching. Those texts, photos or exhibits are very heavy, and sometimes I can’t help but clenched my fists.The Dachau Concentration Camp was the earliest prototype, and it even extended the "Extermination Camp," which directly slaughtered the Jewish people to death.
Finally, looking at the text on the web page,
"A photo in the gallery is of a young woman holding three children in her arms and a baby in her arms, walking silently and helplessly to the gas chamber. What is shocking beside the gas chamber and crematorium is the accumulation. The mountains of boots and shoes of all sizes, large and small, were taken off by the thousands of victims who were forced to go to the gas chamber." "There was also a special shooting range in the Dachau concentration camp, Germany in 1941. After the invasion of the Soviet Union, a large number of Soviets were escorted to Dachau. In only a few days, all 6,000 Soviets were shot and killed. On the eve of Dachau’s liberation, it was discovered that about 7,500 corpses could not be burned in the future. They were moved to Dachau after the end of the war. Howe Cemetery."
This is a cruel fact of war. Just like Taiwan has faced the pain of 228 White Terror, originally did not intend to write the information about concentration camps too carefully, but the Germans have the courage to face the mistakes and pains of this history, rigorous and honest. To face it, this is why the Nazi issue is so sensitive. After reading this article, I can understand what kind of time and space it is created, and I am willing to never come again.
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◎ Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Hall. Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
– Address: Pater-Roth-Str. 2a, 85221, Dachau, Bavaria, Germany
– Tel: +49 8131 669970
– Opening hours: 09:00~17:00
– Official website: https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/index-e.html
