[Rick Lee]

Auschwitz is near Krakow, Poland - a very looooong drive from Munich. Dachau is near Munich, but I can't recall what's near Ingolstadt.

Last time I went through there, I drove from Klagenfurt, Austria, got off the hwy. near the exit for Berchtesgaden and took back roads to Braunau am Inn to see Hitler's birthplace.

If you go to Gmuend, be sure to double check their website to see if they're open. I did that last time, got there and it was closed. Helmut Pfeifhofer left his home phone number on the door sign and I called him up, told him his site said he was open every day except for Xmas and I had come a long way to see it. He told me to come back two days later and had his wife open the place up for me and a group of French tourists. They had been closed for renovations. Luckily, I was planning to be in the area for a few days.