NS Documentation Center

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The NS Documentation Center is a museum which focuses on the history and consequences of the Nazi regime. The museum is situated on the grounds of the former headquarters of the Nazi Party.

We will have a guided tour through the exhibit that focuses on the role of Munich as the "Hauptstadt der Bewegung" (capital of the movement) of Nazism.

The “Capital of the Movement”

How did the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) come to be formed in Munich and why did the city known as the “Capital of the Movement” play such an important role in the Nazi dictatorship? How has Munich addressed this history since 1945? These are all questions we will explore during our tour.  

Adolf Hitler conferred the title “Capital of the Movement” on Munich in August 1935. As the place where the Nazi Party was founded and where Hitler’s failed putsch took place in 1923, Munich was to remain a key component of the Party myth as well as the seat of the Nazi movement. The NSDAP headquarters were located in the “Brown House” on Brienner Straße. They formed the nucleus of the new power center that emerged after 1933 on and around Munich’s Königsplatz. 

During the tour we will explore the question of why it was Munich where the NSDAP formed and rose to power and why after the Nazis took over in 1933 it continued to play a special role in the Nazi dictatorship. What were the Nazis’ plans for Munich? How was this special role reflected in the city’s administration and in its architecture and what was everyday life like in the “Capital of the Movement”?

A special focus of the tour will be how Munich has dealt with this history and how it is continuing to do so today.