Private Dachau Memorial Site Tour

At ‘Hauptbahnhof’, the central train station of Munich. We will organise the exact meeting place and time with you personally.

Travel to and from the site by train and bus takes around 50 minutes each way.

You will have around 3 hours at the site. This includes a tour of the former prisoner camp and surroundings. Feel free to ask the guide after the tour if you would like to visit the bookstore.

Note: If you would prefer to visit Dachau with a private vehicle, then we can organise this for an extra cost. Let us know when enquiring.

During the tour with our Dachau Memorial qualified guides you will explore:

– Why the camp opened, and the first prisoners to arrive.
– The different phases of the camp, its evolution and development.
– ‘Jourhaus’ – the entrance building and gateway into the camp, with its now infamous words “Arbeit Macht Frei”.
– ‘Appellplatz’ – the Roll Call Square.
– The Memorial Site Museum inside the former Maintenance Building.
– Registration of new prisoners and their categorisation.
– Torture and Punishment.
– The Bunker – the prison within the camp.
– Barracks – prisoner life and daily routine.
– Camp perimeter fence and guard towers.
– Barrack X – the two Crematoriums and the Gas Chamber
– The International Memorial and Religious Memorials

Please note that there is no eating once entering the camp grounds.

Taking photos is permitted but please no selfies or inappropriate behaviour.

Filming of guides or anything at the memorial site is prohibited.

For tours specifically, only children aged 13 and upwards are allowed and must be accompanied by an adult.

You can visit the memorial site without a tour group. In this case children of of any age have to be accompanied by an adult. It is then your responsibility, which content you deem appropriate for your children.

Yes, the site is open year round. Be aware that most of the tour is outdoors.

Make sure you prepare accordingly as average temperatures in winter (Dec -March) are sometimes as low as -5C/23F.

Comfortable walking shoes and a bottle of water. You can bring a camera, but please be respectful when taking photos. There is a cafeteria at the visitor center to buy a snack after the tour.

Yes but please let us know when booking so that we can make sure that train staff will be available on the day to help us out.

Dachau memorial site have installed ramps and levelled flooring to accommodate wheelchairs but be aware that the flooring outside is a mixture of gravel and stones.

Tips are always completely voluntary. If you felt like the guide gave extra value to the tour then you can thank them with a tip.