On 4 September 1933 , seven months after Hitler ’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany , parts of Fuhlsbüttel prison were converted into a concentration camp . It was initially placed under the command of the SA . Most of the inmates were Communists , Social Democrats and other political opponents of Nazism , Jews , Jehovah 's Witnesses , Romani , homosexual men and others whom the regime wanted to lock up . In 1936 , the Gestapo began running the camp , then called '' Polizeigefängnis Fuhlsbüttel '' ( police prison ) . Over 700 people were interned in the camp following Kristallnacht in 1938 . Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp was referred to in common parlance as '' KolaFu '' ( abbreviated from '' '' ' Ko '' ' nzentrations '' ' la '' ' ger '' ' Fu '' ' hlsbüttel '' ) and became a synonym for oppression and death through hard labor . Fuhlsbüttel was often an initial point of incarceration for prisoners who were sent on to other camps such as Buchenwald , Esterwegen , Neuengamme , Ravensbrück or Sachsenhausen . The camp was liberated on 3 May 1945 , by which time over 250 people had been murdered there
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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