A few weeks ago I received an email with a code to use GPSmyCity free of charge to try it out, which I’ve now done in a number of cities. I’ll do a wider review of this another time, but when Richard and I were in Munich we had a look to see what self-guided walking tours were available. The one nearest to where we were standing was the Third Reich walking tour which is quite dark, but as someone interested in political history it seemed an interesting one.
I’ve written separately about the locations which are in the tour, which are:
Hitler’s Early Residence in Munich
There is one more location mentioned in the walking tour which I haven’t posted about separately and that’s the Altes Rathaus, or the Old Town Hall. The New Town Hall opened in 1874 and what is visible today is mostly a post-war reconstruction as it was bombed during the Second World War.
The relevance to the walking tour is that, on 9 November 1938, Joseph Goebbels made a speech here that triggered Kristallnacht, or the ‘Night of the Broken Glass’. That was a night of terror that led to the huge destruction of Jewish property, attacks on synagogues and tens of thousands of Jews were arrested.
The walking tour covered a distance of around 3.2 kilometres in length and it takes an hour or so. All of the locations were haunting in their own way, but the Führerbau was perhaps the most poignant as it was here that Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, thought that he had secured peace.