KZ Fuhlsbüttel

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Between 1933 and 1945, tens of thousands of opponents of the Nazi regime were imprisoned in both the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and the Fuhlsbüttel prisons. In total, almost 500 men and women died in the Fuhlsbüttel prisons between 1933 and 1945. The Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, known as "Kola-Fu", opened on September 4, 1933, quickly became one of the most notorious terror sites in Nazi Germany. Prisoners were transferred from Fuhlsbüttel, which continued to operate as a "police prison" in 1936, to other concentration camps. The Fuhlsbüttel prisons, which were under the jurisdiction of the judiciary, were also part of the Nazi persecution apparatus.

From October 26, 1944 to February 15, 1945, a part of the Fuhlsbüttel penitentiary, Blocks A and B, also housed a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp with over 1,300 concentration camp prisoners. The men had been brought here due to the extensive destruction of the Hamburg-Veddel subcamp on the Dessauer Ufer after an Allied bombing raid. As part of the "Geilenberg Program" - an emergency program to save the destroyed mineral oil industry - the prisoners had to carry out cleanup work at refineries and other companies in the port of Hamburg. Some commandos were also deployed to build anti-tank ditches and to clear rubble and recover bodies in the city. In February 1945, the SS moved the concentration camp prisoners back to the Hamburg-Dessauer Ufer subcamp. The work locations remained the same, however.

The head of the subcamp was SS Hauptscharführer Ames.