US Vice President JD Vance arrives during a plenary session at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, at the Grand Palais, in Paris, on February 11, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
US Vice President J.D. Vance will visit the site of the Dachau concentration camp on Thursday, the latest in a string of senior US officials to travel to the former Nazi camp in Germany.
Vance will visit Dachau before heading to the nearby Munich Security Conference, an elite national security gathering, multiple outlets report.
Vance is the latest US vice president to visit Dachau, one of the first camps built by the Nazi regime. Joe Biden visited with his granddaughter in 2015, when he was serving as vice president, and has taken the trip with other children and grandchildren as well.
Vice president Mike Pence visited Dachau in 2017. In 2023, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, who is Jewish, went on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, including a visit to Auschwitz.
US Vice President Mike Pence, second from left, stands behind the gate with the infamous writing “Labor makes free” during a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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