Same here - visited Dachau in 1978.....left there feeling depressed and sad.....what was so funny was we were staying in Munich and when we asked how to get there, the Germans played dumb and acted like they didn’t know what we were talking about......quite an experience!
You just head out Dachauer Strasse to Dachau... You can take the S-Bahn too.
They played dumb...
Something that is So heinous as
The Death camps would have to be denied.
I visited Schindlers’ grave in Jerusalem,
The Death camps...don’t think I’ll go.
Was there in 2007. Got on the train in Munich which took us right to Dachau (the town).
My understanding is that the camp is a required field-trip for the school kids in the Munich area.
Yup, exactly the same here. It was my first visit to Dachau in 1968 and I saw a German woman walking down the street looking for all the world like she was actually afraid the carload of GIs (that's us) would ask her where it was. Must've been a common occurrence on her way to the Nazi meeting down the street. So I pulled over and asked, "Wo ist Dachau, bitte?" Boy, did that ever p*** her off! We couldn't have been half a mile away, but she wasn't about to help us. If you ask me, we let the Germans off waaaay too easy after WWII. They've never demonstrated the least bit of genuine contrition for the millions of innocent lives they took.
WOW! That's *exactly* what happened to us.We arrived in Munich from Frankfurt and decided that we'd get around using the public transit system.We got a hold of a system map and I saw a station called "Dachau".At that time I didn't know that the camps were named after the towns in which they were located so I asked someone if that's where the famous camp had been."Yes",I was told.
But at the same time nobody wanted to talk to me about exactly how to get there.I wasn't sure if it was a language barrier or something else.
It's easy for me to understand why today's Germans wouldn't be thrilled about talking about the camps.Of course they,personally,had nothing to do with them just as we have never been slave owners.
Don't know if you're a Fawlty Towers fan but if you are you'll recall the episode called "The Germans",perhaps the best episode.Just think about the reaction of the German characters...and of the Major for that matter.