Visiting Historical Sites in Germany

The visit to Dachau is depressing as fuck, but really worth your time. The past becomes very real there.

Thanks R1. I’ve been to Auschwitz and Treblinka, so I get the “depressing as fuck” part of it, but we need to remember history.

Bonn is nothing special. Germany is jam-packed with wonderful old cities way more interesting than dreary Bonn.

You're a history buff yet you don't realise Bonn and Nuremberg are absolutely nowhere near each other? Is your flight booked to Barcelona?

R4 There are these magnificent things called rental cars. You can even book them in Europe!

Visit Hitler's house! I loved it!

We visited Nuremburg and it was a pretty city. Didn’t see much of the Nazi sites as it was raining but our guide pointed out the Hitlers stadium and where the trials were. The old city was cool and I would like to go back at Christmas.

One week? I would pick two 'centers' to focus on. Otherwise you're going to spend way too much time traveling.

Berlin has a lot to offer obviously. I'm not sure why Dachau would be on the list after you've been to Auschwitz and Treblinka.

Here's a list of World Heritage Sites. I'm not sure why you'd want to go to Bonn either.

Where are you flying into? You sound very young.

OP, since that part of Europe was settled more than two millennia before the US became a country, it's [italic]all[/italic] historic, FFS. Go wherever you want.

[quote]Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire.

R8 I sound very young? Ok. I’m visiting 3 countries but I’ll be in Germany for a week at the end. I’m going to Poland, Switzerland, and Germany. I’ve been to all these countries before, and I have ancestry in all these countries. I’m just visiting different parts this time.

Sorry -- I meant centuries.^^^

R10, when you went there, were you a real pain?

R10 - well yes you sound young because your selection is weird and you've never specified what history you're interested in - what periods? what types of buildings you'd like to see? What periods / buildings are you not interested in?

Most mature people would have stated that. You want to go to Bonn and not go to Aachen? You want to travel 7 hours from Bonn to Dachau to visit your THIRD Nazi concentration camp?

Yeah - all of that sounds misguided and an immature mind.

The museum in the stadium at Nuremberg is very comprehensive. But also - as these sites tend to be - is also grim as fuck.

Also, when in Nuremberg the Albrecht Dürer Haus is worth a visit, as is the castle. Both are in the old part of the town, and the Dürer museum is on a nice square where locals meet to drink beer and eat pretzels.

OP is an idiot. A quick google would have taken him seconds and answered his questions.

You can visit the house in Düsseldorf where Timm Krüger experiences his first hard on.

r15 OP is wise, soliciting opinions from real people, whose experience and (potential) anecdotes are more helpful and "real" than blurbs on tourist/travel sites.

Jesus Fucking Christ. I’m interested in WWI and WWII history and will be in Germany. I had no idea my question about visiting historical sites would be so offensive to so many.

R17 - well he should first start off saying where he's landing in Germany - if he has even made transportation details yet. And he's not wise - he asks about an entire country with over 2000 years of history and a very large geographic area.

Does he love cathedrals? Castles? Museums?

R18 - specifics matter in your original question, which is why when you ask such an open-ended question about a large country with a long history, we're all grasping at straws.

R19 I'm willing to bet OP's previous tour of Europe was on a coach.

I’m willing to bet that R20 works at Walmart and can’t afford to travel at all.

R21 I'm not American and we don't have Walmart here, but nice try x

I'm also willing to bet I'm much better travelled than you. Did the coach comment touch a nerve?

R22 Why are you so angry?

Lots of weird oldsters on this thread.

I’d want to go to Neuschwanstein Castle

I was just watching Judgment at Nuremberg and they showed a church (? some old building) that had figures that twirled around when the building's bells rang. Whaddya think of that, OP?

“ I'm not sure why Dachau would be on the list after you've been to Auschwitz and Treblinka.”

Agreed. Dachau is interesting as one of the first concentration camps ( may be the first concentration camp). but if you have been to the bigger camps and other parts of Europe, then skip it. Take a day trip up to Eagles nest instead.

If you're only interested in German military history of the 20thC, and you've visited Germany at least once before, you've got your plan.

It's not ridiculous that people would question your World War-centric focus when Germany has rather a lot of history apart from the WWs.

If you seek good answers, ask good questions.

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Go to Düsseldorf! You can have a lot of business meetings.