National Socialism in Munich - Codes of Remembrance

Munich was the city where in 1919-20, the NSDAP was founded, and it continued as the seat of the party's headquaters for the entire Reich until 1945. It was here that Adolf Hitler and other infamous leading players if the NS regime started their political careers. From 1933 Munich was known as the "Capital of the Movement". It was here where a programme of racist aggression was devised and where plans for the military offensive werde drawn up. It was also where plans were advanced to eliminate all political opposition and those art movements which incurred the disapproval of the Party. Dachau, one of the first concentration camps, was established near here, and it was that the scheme for the systematic persecution of Europe's Jews was set in motion. Munich, a city which had always been at home with festivities, became willing backdrop for NS ritualic stage managed events, for purpose of propaganda with far-reaching impact. It was the scene of the fateful "Munich Agreement". Whoerver dared show any resistance, was persecuted, locked or executed.

The Museum department offers basic information.
The material is specific in showing those features which distinguished Munich from other cities, with regard to National Socialism. The exhibition, covering 300 square meters, clearly reveals Munich as the poit of origin of National Socialism, as the hub of power of the NSDAP and the "Capital of German Art", highliting the city's contributions, those who opposed the regime and those who fell victim to its tyranny.
The presentation starts with the end of World War I in 1918 and ends in 1945. Exhibits include objects from the museum's collection, as well as loans from the Munich archives and some private loans.

Informative Literature

Reprint of the 1993/94 exhibition catalog (in German) "München - Hauptstadt der Bewegung" (available for EUR 22,00 at the museum shop)
Short guide of the present exhibition (in German) "Nationalsozialismus in München. Chiffren der Errinnerung" (Brigitte Schütz, Edition Minerva, 80 pages including numerous black-and-white and colored illustrations of the exhibition) (available for EUR 5,00 at the museum's cashier desk and museum shop)
City Map "Munich NS-Topography between 1918 and 1945", edited by the Münchner Stadtmuseum in cooperation with the Department of Arts and Culture, the State Center for Political Education and promoted by the Süddeutsche Zeitung (EUR 2,50; available in the museum shop).

(Source: Munich City Museum)