Germany & Austria 1945
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial
Memorial · liberated 29 Apr 1945
The story
The first camp and the model for all the others; the Kaufering camps were its sub-camps. Liberated by the 42nd and 45th Divisions the same weekend Easy was at Landsberg.
What to look for
Allow the full time. Free; audio guide recommended.
Plan your visit
- Open
- Daily 09:00–17:00; closed 24 Dec
- Price
- Free
- Parking
- Car park next to the site (Alte Römerstraße 73), €3 per car; no card payment
- Access
- Gravel grounds are hard going; wheelchairs and e-scooters available, ramps at several buildings
Checked September 2026 from official sources: kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de, kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de, kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de. Things change, so check before you travel.
Nearby sites
- Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism · 16 km
- Hurlach — Kaufering IV camp site · 50 km
- Landsberg am Lech — old town and prison · 51 km
- European Holocaust Memorial — Kaufering VII · 53 km
- Bad Reichenhall · 121 km
- Salzburg · 129 km
All 26 sites in Germany & Austria 1945 →
Easy Company: Germany & Austria
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the last months of the war in Europe: the Rhine, Bavaria with Landsberg, Dachau and Munich, Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest, and Austria, where Easy Company ended its war at Zell am See and Kaprun.
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