Private tour dachau concentration camp tour from munich

Take a private tour of Dachau Concentration Camp – the first Nazi concentration camp – on a half-day trip from Munich, and put the horrors of Nazi Germany’s genocide into perspective. With a private guide, the tour introduces sites like the camp’s original administration headquarters and the famous ‘Arbeit macht frei’ gateway. Hear heart-wrenching stories about Dachau’s prisoners and learn about the topics that interest you most; the itinerary is flexible and tailored to your interests.

Choose from a morning or afternoon tour, and then meet your private guide for your tour. After a pickup from your centrally located hotel or Munich Central Station, travel by bus north to Dachau to visit its former concentration camp.

In its petrifying prime, Dachau was referred to as the ‘parent camp’; it was the originator, role-model and training ground for the genocide during the Third Reich. A staggering range of persecuted people were sent to Dachau – communists, German dissidents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews and Poles – and the camp’s total intake is estimated to have hit just less than 210,000.

While the camp as it stands today is a memorial site, many of its original features still stand – serving as poignant reminders of a time in history that should never be forgotten. Explore the site with your guide, seeing the gatehouse with its iconic Arbeit macht frei (work makes you free) gateway, a bunker and crematorium. Visit the administration headquarters where fates were decided, and see the rail platform where prisoners once arrived.

As you walk around, listen to your guide giving the background on each site, learning about well-known Nazis whose names were linked to the camp. The feared leader Heinrich Himmler set up Dachau, and Theodore Eicke later used it as a place to train his SS (Nazi secret police) guards.

If there is something you would like to know more about, then simply let your guide know. After exploring the camp, enjoy some free time to browse the museum or enjoy lunch (own expense) in the visitor center's café, and then return to your bus. Your tour finishes with a drop-off at Munich Central Station.