Experts' Choice Award Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
5 expert reviews
“Visitors enter the camp through the prisoners' gate, over which you will read Arbeit macht frei ("Work brings freedom").”
– Michelin Guide
Fodor's "Photographs, contemporary documents, the few cell blocks, and the grim crematorium create a somber and moving picture of the camp where more than 41,000 of the 200,000-plus prisoners lost their lives." Full review
Let's Go "The first thing prisoners saw as they entered Dachau was the inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work will set you free”) on the camp’s iron gate." Full review
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"This memorial site highlights to visitors the unbearable reality of Germany's first concentration camp, which was opened in March 1933 upon the orders of Hitler." Full review
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"This was the Nazis’ first concentration camp...it ‘processed’ more than 200,000 inmates, killing at least 43,000, and is now a haunting memorial. " Full review
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Note that children aged under 12 may find the experience too disturbing.
