Does anyone know if there is much to see in or around the city relating to the war? I may be there for a week next year and would love to fit a bit in. We'll have a car, so up to 50 or so miles aound will be possible. Thanks in advance.
I visited the city in June 1999. Take a trip to Dachau. It's just north of the city and within a quick commute. The Deutsches Museum is also a good stop. Be sure to take in a few beer halls... Hofbraunhaus was my favorite (can't forget the beer hall putsch.
I visited the city in June 1999. Take a trip to Dachau. It's just north of the city and within a quick commute. The Deutsches Museum is also a good stop. Be sure to take in a few beer halls... Hofbraunhaus was my favorite (can't forget the beer hall putsch. I would agree with Gaudet about doing the above You can go to Dachau by train to We did the Third Reich tour to ,witch is well worth the money
As well as its main site in the city centre, which includes a number of ship models & aircraft, the Deutsches Museum has an aircraft museum at Oberschleissheim, which is on the way to the airport. Should you be accompanied by family members who get bored by aircraft, there's a very elegant chateau nearby. In Munich itself, the Feldherrnhalle (Field Marshal's Hall) is a mid 19th century memorial to Bavarian war heroes; it was the place where Hitler's Beerhall Putsche was stopped. I think that the actual beerhall where it started, the Burgerbraukeller, no longer exists but there several other traditional ones are still there.
Got to agree with Jason, Dachau and the Hofbrauhaus, isn't that were the nazi party used to meet, or that's what I was told. I think it's a beatiful city and I must visit again Steve
Ron got to Munich in 1945 BBC - WW2 People's War - The infamous Burger Brau Keller in Munich Also I'd suggest look at After The Battle issues 62 and 66 perhaps? ab-con1 ISSUE No. 66 (Code A066) MUNICH - DER NEUNTE ELFTE - The anniversary march held by Hitler and the Old Guard to mark the Munich Putsch of November 9, 1923. ISSUE No. 62 (Code A062) 50 Years Ago - The Munich Crisis - A blow-by-blow account by Karel Margry of the negotiations between Britain, France, Italy and Germany which led to the annexation of Czechoslovakia.
I was taken around Dachau in the 1950's , when I was small , and remember a lot of silence and large areas where thousands of people were buried . I went again in 1968 and it was full of newly constructed huts . It felt like a nice , clean "Habitat" version of the Camp . In 1968 a couple of my friends worked for Loewenbrau and we often met up in the Burgerbraukeller . My landlady at the time told me that Hitler had been a friend of her grandparents during the Munich years , and in my bedroom was a painted , traditional wardrobe that Hitler was said to have coveted . One of my colleagues came from Dresden and told us how her father was on leave during the bombing raids and covered them all in wet blankets to get them out of their apartment . I was a teenager during these 8 months in Munich , too young to ask questions or even to know what to ask . I took so much for granted . Berchtesgaden isn't that far from Munich . And , not connected to WW2 , the Amalienburg palace in the grounds of Schloss Nymphenburg is very beautiful . It's a lovely city . Linden
Have a look here for a few things to see in Munich. >>> Munich some good then & nows. From same website, scroll down to Munich. Nazi Eagles I've posted co-ords for the swastika shaped house on the Googleearth thread.