The app
The free “Dachau Memorial Education App” is an application that complements the visit to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. It invites you to engage with the place, but also other aspects of the culture of remembrance, regardless of where you are. The integrated exercises are primarily aimed at school classes.
Teachers and other multipliers who are planning a visit to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial will find information here for booking an educational offer as well as suggestions for preparing and following up on the excursion in class.
We see the app as an extended educational offer. It does not replace a guided tour or workshop on site, nor does it replace the audio guide available at the visitor center. The minimum age for participating in educational offerings at the concentration camp memorial and using the app is 13 years.
The app is regularly revised and expanded. It was created as part of the “fabulAPP” project of the State Office for Non-State Museums in Bavaria with the support of the Bayerische Sparkassenstiftung.

The Dachau concentration camp
On March 22, 1933, the Nazi regime opened a concentration camp on the site of the disused "Royal Bavarian Powder and Munitions Factory Dachau". The place of detention and terror existed for twelve years. More than 200,000 prisoners from over 40 nations were imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and its subcamps; at least 41,500 people died there from hunger, disease, torture, murder and the consequences of concentration camp imprisonment.

After liberation
After the prisoners were freed by US Army units on April 29, 1945, the American military government used the former prison camp as a "Displaced Persons Camp". From July 1945 the area served as an internment camp for Nazi perpetrators; In 1948 the Bavarian state government set up a refugee camp there.

The Dachau concentration camp memorial
Thanks to the initiative of the survivors, who came together to form the “Comité International de Dachau” (CID) in 1955, the former prison camp was converted into a place of remembrance and remembrance. In May 1965, the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial was opened with its first documentary exhibition.
The redesign of the Dachau concentration camp memorial began in 1997. A new main exhibition was opened in 2003. The leitmotif of the exhibition, which can still be seen today, follows the “Path of the Prisoners”. The fate of the persecuted is documented from their arrival, their life, suffering and death in the camp until their liberation.
In 2003, the Bavarian State Government handed over the sponsorship of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial to the newly founded “Bavarian Memorials Foundation”. The foundation's task is to maintain and design the memorial sites as international places of learning and remembrance for future generations.

To this day, the aim of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial is to commemorate the suffering and death of the prisoners and to promote an examination of National Socialist crimes.

Introductory image: Stefan Müller-Naumann