Fuhlsbüttel
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Fuhlsbüttel is a suburb in the north of Hamburg, Germany. It is known as the site of Hamburg's International Airport Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel, and as the location of a prison which served as a concentration camp in the Nazi system of repression.
The prison, originally built as a regular prison in 1879, was converted to a satellite concentration camp after the Nazis' takeover of Germany in 1933, when it was placed under the control of the SS and SA. Most of the inmates were anti-Nazi sympathizers, Jews, Jehovah Witnesses, Roma, gays, and others whom the regime wanted to lock up. Over 700 people were interned in the camp following Kristallnacht in 1938. "Konzentrationslager Fuhlsbüttel" (Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp) was referred to as "Kola-Fu" in common parlance 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, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück or Sachsenhausen. The camp was liberated in May, 1945, by which time over 250 people had been murdered there. A camp memorial has been constructed nearby.
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