If you are planning to be in Munich to check out dachau, why not make some time for yourself around Salzburg.<BR><BR>Mauthausen is about 90 minutes from Salzburg and I am told that it is quite something to visit. Unlike Dachau, it is a bit sadder since so many people actually died there.<BR><BR>Check out the internet www. mauthausen.com<BR><BR>Good luck

ray,<BR><BR>Thousands of people died in Dachau as well.<BR><BR>Dachau was the "model" camp. I believe it was built to hold around 5,000 people. It ballooned to over 30,000.<BR><BR>If you are in the Munich area, a MUST see.<BR><BR>Dick

Am going to Dachau myself in a few weeks, doing research yesterday I found a few good websites for history and information about the site:<BR><BR>http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/english/<BR><BR>http://members.aol.com/zbdachau/index_e.html<BR><BR>The Second one has many links to other good informational sites.

I am under the impression that nothing is "original" in the camps as they were all destroyed at the end of WWII. So what you are seeing are just "rebuilt" camps. Can anyone verify whether that is true or not?

I have been to both Dachau and Auschwitz. In my opinion, there is NO comparision.<BR><BR>Dachau has been greatly sanitized (the barracks have been torn down and then rebuilt as a sample, etc.). Auschwitz/Birkenau has been left basically unchanged since the Russians liberated the camp - remember the Poles lost many Polish intelligensia at Auschwitz. You still see rooms of human hair, luggage, toothbrushes, etc.<BR>A truly sobering experience...especially passing under the gate that states Work Makes Free (can't remember the German, I think it is Arbeit Meik Frei possibly).