The Dachau concentration camp tour covers all the main areas including the permanent exhibitions, barracks, crematoriums, torture chambers, gas chambers, the international monument, and the memorial sites. It illustrates in depth the role the camp played during the Holocaust.

Explore the camp with an expert English-speaking guide, who will explain its history in detail. There is a lot of difficult information to process, and a guided tour is the best way to understand the true depth of the Holocaust and gain insight into the prisoners’ experiences.

Watch a 20-minute documentary film about Dachau, which gives you a grim and sobering account of the rise of the Nazi Party and the harrowing history of the concentration camp. While difficult to watch, it lays bare the stark reality of the crimes committed here.

Your Dachau tour tickets include transfers from Munich and back by bus and train, saving you the hassle of figuring out the transportation logistics and reaching the camp by yourself. With your travel taken care of, you can focus on the tour.

The main entrance to the camp, also known as the “Jourhaus”, the iron gate was a symbol of the brutal Nazi regime and the suffering of the camp’s prisoners. It is marked with the slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work sets you free”), a cruel irony considering the camp’s true nature as a place of forced labour.

One of seven guard towers built for the German SS soldiers at Dachau, a reconstructed watchtower gives you an idea of the oppressive conditions in which the inmates were kept. They were equipped with machine guns and manned round the clock to prevent prisoners from escaping.

Known in German as “Appelplatz”, this square served as an open area where the prisoners were counted and inspected every morning and evening. It was also where punishments were doled out and prisoners were executed.

A complex of 34 barracks was built at Dachau concentration camp in 1937-38. Divided into day and sleeping quarters, they were designed to hold 200 people each, although by the end of the war, there were about 2,000 prisoners crammed here. Demolished after the war, they were reconstructed as the replicas seen today.

The sickbay was initially a camp hospital and was used for propaganda purposes to show that the camp’s inmates were well taken care of. In reality, the prisoners were neglected and in poor health with unsanitary conditions. In time, the SS doctors used this site to conduct inhumane medical experiments on prisoners.

One of the permanent exhibition areas at Dachau, the kitchen area today displays the personal belongings of the prisoners, such as small jewellery, letters, small photographs, prisoner uniforms, as well as writings or drawings done by prisoners, their biographies, and other camp items.

One of the most chilling areas of Dachau, today it serves as the main location of the memorial. Inside, you can see the gas chamber that was disguised as a “shower bath” where prisoners were killed, as well as the crematorium. Between 1933 and 1945, over 41,000 people were killed or died at Dachau concentration camp.

With over 130 commemorative plaques and stones, this room memorializes the people once imprisoned at Dachau. You can learn about the names, nationalities, and places of birth of the identified victims. There is a remembrance book in the room, which contains the names of more than 33,000 people who died here.

Nandor Glid, a Holocaust survivor who was persecuted by the Nazi regime, designed the International Monument, a bronze sculpture commemorating the victims of Dachau concentration camp. You can walk through this monument, which resembles human figures caught in barbed wire. It calls to stand against tyranny and ends with a moving inscription: “Never Again”.

Explore Nymphenburg Palace, the 17th-century baroque masterpiece that served as the summer residence of the rulers of Bavaria. Wander its sprawling gardens and admire its ornate facades and magnificent interiors.