Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site

KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau

The first Nazi concentration camp, free to visit

⚠ Closed 24 Dec

Hours

Daily 9am–5pm, crematorium area to 4:30pm; closed 24 Dec (official)

Tickets

Free entry, no booking needed. Audio guides and guided tours cost extra (check on site)

Address

On the eastern edge of the town of Dachau, northwest of Munich

Opened in 1933, the first Nazi concentration camp and the model for those that followed. Through the iron gate with 'ARBEIT MACHT FREI' worked into it lie the empty roll-call square, reconstructed barracks, guard towers and the crematorium. The permanent exhibition in the old maintenance building follows individual prisoners' records, and people end up staying far longer than planned. It isn't a pleasant outing, but those who go tend to say everyone should, once.