The Liberation AR Status

The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site has been able to work on the project thanks to financial support from the Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (Foundation for Remembrance, Responsibility and Future).  The audio track will guide you across the site while listening to the voices of the witnesses of the Dachau concentration camp liberation , on April 29, 1945.  Through Augmented Reality people who have been witnessing the day of April 29, 1945, will appear right in front of you, in the area of today`s Memorial Site.  All these people talk about this special day on “The Liberation” and some of them can even be seen on the historical photos, which you can position through the Augmented Reality App on today´s Memorial Site.  TheLiberationAR was developed by Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting Company) in cooperation with Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site.  With AR it is possible to position historical pictures together with an audio track in real space and real time in order to combine the present with the past.  The Memorial Site provides several information boards with QR codes which you can scan with your smartphone or tablet.  On April 29, 1945, US troops arrive at Dachau. At that time 32. 000 prisoners are there, starving, emaciated, sick.  But when the US soldiers enter the camp for the first time in the afternoon of the 29th of April 1945 they do not have any idea of the situation.  Download TheLiberationAR preferably before you visit the Memorial Site.  In accordance to this directive data processing is permitted without formal consent of data subject (see Art. ... ] for the performance of the tasks carried out in the [... ] public interest.  The day of the liberation of the concentration camp Dachau.  On site more pictures and the audio track will be downloaded.  Through historical photo overlays you can experience the moment on this very day, right in this spot.  You can see former prisoners appearing on the muster ground supporting each other or teenagers cheering behind a barbed wire fence.  You will then get the directions to the spots for possible historical photo overlays.