Munich: WW2 & Third Reich Walking Tour with Private Guide

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What’s the experience like?

“You know, most people don’t realize Hitler was an outsider here at first,” our guide Thomas said as we stood near Marienplatz, his scarf flapping in the wind. He had this way of talking like he’d lived through it all—pausing to let us take in the old stone buildings, then pointing out a plaque I’d never have noticed. The city felt busy around us but also strangely quiet when he described the Beer Hall Putsch. I could almost hear the echo of boots on cobblestones.

We walked through central Munich, tracing the rise of the Nazi Party right where it happened. Sometimes Thomas would stop mid-sentence to show us a faded photo or pass around a battered medal from his bag—real stuff, not just pictures on a phone. At one point, he asked if we wanted to break at a beerhall tied to the story (I tried ordering in German; the waitress smiled politely). The smell of yeast and wood mixed with something heavier—maybe just the weight of history. It’s strange how normal everything looks now.

I didn’t expect to feel so much standing outside what used to be party headquarters. There were tourists snapping selfies nearby, but for a moment it was just us and Thomas’s voice explaining how things unraveled here—the Munich Pact, Kristallnacht. He never rushed or sugarcoated anything. By the time we reached the spot where US troops entered in 1945, my feet were tired but my mind was racing. I still think about that view back toward Marienplatz as dusk crept in.