Overview
- Dachau recorded a precise 1,013,203 visitors in 2025 using a new anonymized automatic counter, underscoring broadly stable or higher attendance reported across many sites.
- Visitor totals were up or steady at several memorials, including Ravensbrück (+1.4% to 74,000), Neuengamme (+3.5% to 113,800) and Osthofen (+6.5% to over 20,000), with Sachsenhausen near 500,000 and Hadamar, Buchenwald (about 350,000) and Mittelbau-Dora (about 50,000) largely unchanged.
- Berlin sites generally saw declines, led by the Topography of Terror at about 1.575 million visitors (down roughly 3%), the German Resistance Memorial Foundation at 191,052 (down nearly 10%) and the Wannsee Conference House at 99,372 (down about 5%), while the NS Forced Labor Documentation Center rose nearly 10% to 25,412 and the Holocaust Memorial’s information center was essentially flat at 309,800.
- The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora foundation now files police reports nearly weekly versus about monthly before 2020, citing incidents ranging from death-threat and Hitler-salute emails to illegal motocross riding on the Buchenwald memorial and right-wing graffiti at the Nordhausen honor cemetery.
- Staff report qualitative shifts in behavior, including antisemitic or Israel-hostile guestbook entries at Flossenbürg with Gaza–KZ comparisons, more hostile youth group attitudes at Ravensbrück, rising antisemitic comments on NS Forced Labor’s social channels and a swastika graffiti case, with Villa ten Hompel noting frequent guestbook smears.