München, as the Germans call it, is an amazing city! It is definitely a city that one needs to visit more than once, not just to drink beer in the “beer capital of the world,” but also to gain a better understanding of what transpired here during WWII.
Leaving Bad Mergentheim on Friday morning put us in Munich in the early afternoon. Upon arrival we all went to the Hoftbrauhous (a world famous beer hall that Hitler would frequently visit) to drink our first ever “mas” (one-liter glass beer mug). On Saturday, before we took our bike tour, we went to see the Glockenspiel in the Merianplatz! After witnessing the Glockenspiel’s show, we embarked on our bike tour around Munich. I would say the highlight from the tour was seeing the Nazi Air Force building and also the Munich Parliament. The old Nazi Air Force building was not bombed during WWII due to the fact that Hitler had the building camouflaged and in turn our armed forces used it as a point of strategic reference for fighting the war within Munich. The Munich Parliament caught my eye because the pillars in front of the building are a vivid reminder of what happened here during the war. Each one of the pillars has cavities from shrapnel hitting them during the war.
On Sunday we traveled to Dachau to see the concentration camp. Although much of the camp has been reconstructed, it is still a very sobering feeling taking it all in. There was not one highlight of the trip to Dachau for me. But I can say that the one sight that has stayed with me since the visit is the crematorium. Knowing that many innocent people were executed within this building had the biggest effect on me that day.
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