Reddit mentions of Exploring the World of J. S. Bach: A Traveler's Guide

As for Bach you could do some research for yourself https://www.amazon.co.uk/Exploring-World-J-Bach-Travelers/dp/0252081765/ . Leipzig is an obvious destination and notice that neighbouring Halle is the place where Händel was born. Beyond Leipzig here is a nice website about Bach sites in Thuringia where he spent the largest part of his pre-Leipzig years: https://www.bach-thueringen.de/en/bach-locations/

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Most larger cultural museums have some kind of medieval weaponry thrown in be it Dresden or Nuremberg but Solingen's Klingenmuseum would have been my first idea, too.

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You will never encounter anybody who is offended about interest in the Thirs Reich there is rather some (arguably dubious) pride about the way Germany deals with its past and you can visit tons of places. Others will be rather bored than annoyed with this topic. Though it is a difference if you are interested in history and structure or if you are a WWII buff which will be seen with far less sympathy and understanding.

There are however questions I always ask foreign visitors who jump into the whole WWII topic. First what do you expect to see? There are preciously few buildings from this era. The art is almost never displayed so you basically often end up reading panels which leads us straight to question two: why are you focusing on the one thing you probably have a vague grasp of about Germany and the one thing you could learn about far more comfortably from home? The third question is if you explore dark sides of other countries or if this is a Nazi Horror Picture Show for you because the Nazis are cool and oh so evil. Also do you explore the dark sides of your own country or are the Nazis just a convenient evil landmark and you can say to yourself that your country wasn't as bad. Finally if you are from one of the major Allied countries: are you trying to re-win the war and bask in its glory? Especially the United Kingdom seems to be stuck in a nasty time-loop regarding that battling the EU as a Germany dominated Fourth Reich.

A simple example is Colditz castle near Leipzig which has tons of visitors from the UK - and almost no German ones. No one here cares or knows about the heroics of British officers who made rather pointless escape attempts but visitors from UK flock there to somehow relive their country's finest hour ... this is really something I see with a certain contempt.

So basically you have to ask yourself what is the point of visiting such sites.