The district was broadly left-wing in the early 1930s ; when the Nazi Party took power in 1933 , the majority of residents were members of the social democratic parties , the USPD and the SPD . Nevertheless , more than 100 local civil servants were replaced by officials more favourable to the Party on 7 April 1933 . After the pogroms of Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938 , only some isolated Jews were still allowed to carry out their business , among them was Hohenschönhausen doctor Victor Aronstein , whose waiting room served as a secret meeting place for communists and social democrats until 1939 . In 1938 the district 's synagogue was completely destroyed by the Nazis ; its location is now the site of a memorial to the persecuted Jews of Hohenschönhausen . Together with Wartenberg , Falkenberg and Marzahn , Hohenschönhausen was one of the first parts of Greater Berlin to be capitulated by the Red Army in the evening of 21 April 1945 . Like most of Berlin , the immediate problems facing the area included outbreaks of Typhus and Shigellosis , a lack of gas and electricity , and widespread homelessness and orphancy . By the end of the summer of 1945 , schools had re-opened and Hohenschönhausen Castle began functioning as a hospital , which continued until 1989 . At around the same time , the Soviet secret police took over a building in an industrial area formerly occupied by the Nazi welfare organisation , the NSV , and converted into use as a detainment and transit camp for prisoners of war , which continued to be used until the beginning of the fall of the German Democratic Republic in 1989
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Alt-Hohenschönhausen