I arrived safely in Munich an hour later than scheduled on Sunday morning. 70 minutes was not long enough to transfer in Zurich with long queues for security and immigration. But I wasn’t the last to arrive at the gate! Just a little plane with 2 propellers for the last leg. Parked on the far side of the airport in Munich and I could see my bags coming off the plane as we waited for the bus. Much relief.
Sunday afternoon – a foray into the city centre to the sound of piano-accordian buskers on every corner. Then late afternoon the church bells
Lots of central city churches. St Peters is the oldest. 1181. This photo taken from the tower of the new (1908) town hall.
And lots of decorated buildings.
On the plane over, I watched “The Zookeper’s Wife” . And then on Monday took a tour of Dachau. Reckon I’ve got my ‘fill’ this week .
First the tour took us via the town of Dachau pop 47,000 and with an Old Town that predates Munich. The concentration camp was located at a disused munitions factory just out of the town Dachau was a concentration camp ie a slave-worker camp, not an extermination camp (so, unlike Auschwitz). But lots of torture and poor treatment and starvation still meant many deaths .
the map in the museum shows the location of the very many such camps all over Germany and the occupied territories as the guide said – the populace must have known what was going on.
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