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Munich and National Socialism

Permanent exhibition

01.01.2018 - 01.01.2035 ,
NS-Dokumentationszentrum München (Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism)

Special features:
Free entry.
Accessibility
partly accessible
Opening Times
Open today 10:00-19:00
Address
Max-Mannheimer-Platz 1
80333 München
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As the founding city of the NSDAP, Munich is linked to the rise of National Socialism like no other city. The exhibition Munich and National Socialism covers around 1000 square metres and provides in-depth historical knowledge about the founding and rise of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in Munich, the city's special role in the dictatorship's system of terror and the difficulties of dealing with this past since 1945.
With photographs, documents and texts as well as film projections and media stations, the exhibition shows how the Nazi state and its policy of exclusion and persecution functioned, but also the offers and enticements it used to secure broad support among the population. Selected biographies of perpetrators, victims and followers as well as people who offered resistance shed light on their motives and room for manoeuvre. The Second World War had an impact on the whole of Europe: the exhibition looks at the situation in Munich and the involvement of Munich residents in Nazi crimes in the occupied territories. Finally, the exhibition goes beyond the collapse of the regime in 1945 and looks at the aftermath of National Socialism up to the present day.

Last edited on 13.08.2024

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The exhibition room of a museum with a wide window front in the background. Visitors stand around a media table and look at it. (opens enlarged image)
Visitors to the exhibition Munich and National Socialism © NS-Dokumentationszentrum München. Photo: Foto: Connolly Weber Photography
The well-frequented exhibition room of a museum. Information boards on both sides of the picture. (opens enlarged image)
Visitors to the exhibition Munich and National Socialism © NS-Dokumentationszentrum München. Photo: Foto: Connolly Weber Photography
Three people stand in front of an information board in the brightly lit exhibition room of a museum. (opens enlarged image)
Visitors to the exhibition Munich and National Socialism © NS-Dokumentationszentrum München. Photo: Foto: Connolly Weber Photography
View from above of the media table in a museum. Visitors stand around the table and look at it. (opens enlarged image)
Visitors to the exhibition Munich and National Socialism © NS-Dokumentationszentrum München. Photo: Foto: Connolly Weber Photography

Associated museum

Museum / Exhibition Centre: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München (Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism)

The Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism conveys the history of National Socialism with a view to the present and the future and considers the historical experience of the...

Location: München