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Alte Römerstraße 75, 85221 Dachau (20 km northwest of Munich)

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About this place Dachau Memorial — Pink Triangle Commemoration

The Dachau concentration camp, the first the Nazi regime built, imprisoned men marked with the pink triangle from its earliest years. Their story is one of double erasure: at liberation, some homosexual prisoners were not freed but transferred to regular prisons — Paragraph 175 remained in force in West Germany until 1969 — and the camp's 1968 International Monument, with its sculpture of coloured badges, deliberately omitted the pink triangle. The plaque that corrects this took a decade to be accepted. Activists created the pink granite triangle in 1985; the memorial site refused to install it, and for ten years it was kept in the Protestant Church of Reconciliation on the grounds. Only in 1995 did the Comité International de Dachau permit its placement in the memorial room of the museum, where it now honours the homosexual prisoners of Dachau. Visiting: the memorial site is free and open daily 9am-5pm. From Munich, take the S2 to Dachau, then bus 726 to the visitors' centre. Find the plaque in the memorial room of the main museum building. This is a place of mourning; the plaque's own journey — a memorial that itself had to fight for admission — is part of what it commemorates.

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Isaque Swarowski
Isaque Swarowski Aug 2026
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A place with an incredibly heavy atmosphere! It should be visited with extreme respect. Do some research beforehand and look up the history of the camp so you can better understand the information provided on site. Above all, during your visit, remember that this is a memorial aimed at ensuring that such atrocities never happen again, and not a tourist attraction like any other.

Andre Belt
Andre Belt Aug 2026
★★★★★

An impressive location where you can view many things. Much attention is paid to keeping everything tidy and telling the correct story. You can spend several hours walking around the camp and seeing various items. Admission is free, as is the case at many German camps. Parking near the camp (a 5-minute walk) costs 3 euros. The two barracks have been completely restored and provide many insights into what it looked like in the past. Very impressive! It is certainly important and worthwhile to pay a visit here.

Zoe Kasapi
Zoe Kasapi Aug 2026
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Steffen Zahm
Steffen Zahm Aug 2026
★★★★★

It's a sad place, but seeing it reminds me what we can't let happen again

Erkan Safa
Erkan Safa Jul 2026
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Viacheslav Pazio
Viacheslav Pazio Jul 2026
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BFredy
BFredy Jul 2026
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The site is enormous. For €5 you can get an audio guide in your language and explore it at your own pace. For people with disabilities, they provide electric wheelchairs or mobility scooters. This is much appreciated because the site is very large and there's a lot to see. I was deeply moved; it's hard to think of all the people who have died and all the suffering those walls have witnessed. It's chilling.

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Last updated on 20 September 2026

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