KZ-Friedhof Dachau-Leitenberg — Local services in Dachau

Trekking up a gradually ascending green thickly foliaged hill from the vehicle parking area one encounters "stations of the cross" and an Italian chapel built in memory of that nations victims of the Dachau Concentration Camp. A sombre and reflective atmosphere hovers over the rows of somewhat shamefully maintenance compromised graves. Indeed during the 1950s and 1960s several countries exhumed their dead for reinterment in their respective jurisdictions. The over 7400 deceased victims of fascist political extremism who rest in peace here are a salutary reminder to the world that the next ruthless genocidal regime somewhere may be skulking in the wings and only a...

This place is gorgeous and haunting at the same time. From the parking lot, follow the paved path up the steep hill to find the mass graves, memorials, and a beautiful view of some farmland. It is fantastic, only thing keeping it from being as good as the dachau memorial site is the mosquitos. Also, there are barely any tourists that make it over there and the solitude adds to the feeling...

Na Leitenbergu spoczywają więźniowie KZ Dachau różnych narodowości. W sumie ponad 7400 ofiar terroru nazistowskiego. Po wyzwoleniu obozu żołnierze amerykańscy nakazali okolicznym chłopom i prominentnym działaczom NSDAP zawiezienie furmankami ponad 2000 ciał na cmentarz Leitenberg. Znajduje się tam piękna, włoska kaplica Regina Pacis. Powstała w 1963 roku. Na murze cmentarnym nieliczne tabliczki z...