The Rocketts: Dachau and Munich

After leaving Rothenburg, we went to the town of Dachau. Dachau is also the location for a WWII concentration work camp. Will and Dad went to the concentration camp while mom and I went shopping around town. We have been numerous times and thought we could do without another trip. When Will came out of the camp he said it was very sobering. The concentration camp includes a 30 minute informational movie about the camp, a musuem, the barracks that housed the inmates, gas chambers, etc. This was a camp mainly for working prisoners not for mass killings.

After we left Dachau we went to Munich for a few hours. We saw the world famous cathedral and the town sqaure. The town square houses the Glockenspiel. It is really just a giant cookoo clock on the bell town attachted to the town hall. We also went to the Hoffbrau Hause in Munich. This is a Beirgarten where huge pretzels and huges beers. This is also where Hitler began his movement and many of his marches on the barvarian government.

From there we left for Garmisch-Partenkichen where we stayed for two nights. We ate at our hotel the Frauendorfer Gasthause. It was Saint Joseph day in Barvaria and the Frauendorfer was packed with people and hoppin. They had a huge Barvarian band playing through the dinner and young dancing boys in lederhosen.

We ate schnitzel and sourkraut and sang along with the best Germans around us. We slept good that night :)

Will inside of Dachau Concentration camp

At the gate to enter Dachau. The gate says "Work makes free". The inmates were told if they worked they would be set free, but like much of the other Nazi promises, it was not true.