Leaving Marien Platz down town Munich at 9:00 you will travel via train with your authorized guide to the Dachau memorial site. Our 5 hour tour of the Dachau Concentration Camp will cover all areas accessible to the public and the following. • Rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party throughout the 1920s up to his appointment as Chancellor in 1933 • Burning of the Reichstag and the formation of concentration camps • The roll Dachau played as model for other camps • 3 major phases of the camp system • SS training facility • Jourhaus (main gate house) with the infamous slogan ARBEIT MACHT FREI • Liberation of the camp and the aftermath • What happened at Dachau between 1945 and the unveiling of the Documentation center in 1965 • An in depth look at the concentration camp system, Ghettos and Extermination camps • Registration of prisoners and their various categories • Kristallnacht – 1938 pogrom against the Jews and the first major influx of Jewish prisoners at Dachau.