Mauthausen. What are your thoughts?
 

I am planning to get to Mauthausen from Salzburg for the day. Anyone out there been to the concentration camp? Is it easy to get to? I read somewhere that it is better to take a bike from the train station to the camp.<BR><BR>I'll be going from Berchtesgaden, through Salzburg and onto Mauthausen for the day. The ytrain schedule says it is nearly 2 hours from Salzburg. Again, is it worth the four hour round trip from salzburg?<BR><BR>Looking for some input about whether it is worth the trip.

In response to your e-mail about Mauthausen, it is not like visiting a castle or a town on the romantic road etc. It is visiting a place where many horrors and deaths took place. Berchtesgadan is a place where much of the planning was done. I don't like to sound philosophical but remember it is not JUST an attraction, Mauthausen is real. My wife could not complete her visit there. Her uncle was a prisoner there and survived. It is not a death camp but just as well might have been. Please think over your concern whether it is worth it and see why you want to go there. After all it's not the Eiffel Tower or something like that.

Just like Guantanamo!!!

Mark: Went there three years ago from Salzburg. As Alan points out it is not <BR>an attraction. It is there to remind us of what happen and what still can happen . I think everyone should go to give witness to the past of man's cruelity to his fellow man.

Haven't been to Mauthausen but have been to Dachau. Like the other posters said, it's not an "attraction." But I felt I wanted to see a concentration camp and it's very unsettling even tho' I've watched so much re the concentration camps (I'm a WWII buff). Just a note on Berchtesgaden, or rather Hitler's place, it was not what I expected. Other than the history and a great view, it's one "big" restaurant. I wouldn't go out of my way to see it.