Personal tours led by experts
All of our guides are officially authorized by the Dachau Memorial Site and have led tours at Dachau for more than a decade.
Our guides are native English speakers.
Our guides have met with survivors of Dachau. Their moving personal stories are the heart of our tours.
We offer public tours and exclusive private tours.
Children under the age of 14 are not allowed on tours at Dachau.
Public Dachau Tour
A 5 hour experience starting in Munich
Private Dachau Tour
An exclusive private tour, tailor-made for you.
The First Nazi Concentration Camp
“Work Will Make You Free” - Cynical message used at the entrance gate to the prison camp.
Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany on the 30th of January 1933. Just seven weeks later the first concentration camp in Germany was established. This camp was a short distance outside of Munich beside the town of Dachau. The first to be targeted were political opponents: Communists, Socialists, journalists and outspoken clergymen. They were sent to Dachau for "re-education". These first prisoners would soon be followed by other groups - homosexuals, the homeless, Roma and Sinti people, so-called "asocials" and, in particular, Jews.
The Model Camp
Dachau Concentration Camp is sometimes called the “model camp”. The SS would train their men here before sending them out to command a vast network of camps that stretched across Nazi occupied Europe. The SS themselves called it "The School of Terror". At Dachau the SS created a system where human beings could be subjected to torture, starvation, degradation, medical experiments, mass execution and death.
