Munich's Feldherrnhalle carries no plaque on its front steps. The memorial sits behind it, in Viscardigasse: a line of brass cobbles set into the pavement where residents detoured rather than salute the shrine on Odeonsplatz. Locals called the alley the Drückebergergasse, the shirkers' lane. A Munich Third Reich & WWII Walking Tour tends to begin making sense at exactly that width of metal underfoot. The city does not stage its past. It leaves it in the stonework, largely unlabelled, for anyone who knows where to look. Between 1933 and 1945 the city advertised itself as the Hauptstadt der Bewegung. The machinery was bureaucratic before it was theatrical. Königsplatz, laid out in the nineteenth century as a neoclassical forum, was paved over in 1935 with granite slabs for parade formations. The Führerbau and the Verwaltungsbau framed its eastern edge; the Brienner Straße corridor held the offices from which orders travelled outward. The agreement partitioning Czechoslovakia was signed inside the Führerbau in September 1938. That building now houses a music academy. That layering is what the Munich Third Reich & WWII Walking Tour tours are built to expose. The Hofbräuhaus, Odeonsplatz, the vanished Bürgerbräukeller, and the atrium of Ludwig Maximilian University where Hans and Sophie Scholl released White Rose leaflets in February 1943 all remain in ordinary civic use. German-language operators list the same circuit as a Rundgang durch das Dritte Reich in München. The NS-Dokumentationszentrum, opened in 2015 on the footprint of the demolished Brown House, answers the problem architecturally: a white cube holding documents rather than relics, designed so that nothing inside can be mistaken for a shrine. Munich has spent eight decades deciding how loudly to speak. Most of these buildings were never demolished; they were reassigned, and the reassignment is itself the record. Munich WWII history walking tours therefore work less as sightseeing than as annotation, and the ground they cover belongs to everyone. Munich Third Reich & WWII Walking Tour tickets pay for guiding and sequence, not for admission: the squares, alleys and facades along Marienplatz and northward are public, free at 0 EUR, and open 00:00–23:59 every day of the week. What a visitor buys is the order in which the addresses are read, and the silence a guide knows when to leave in place.