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the building, which contained 134 cells, 10 interrogation rooms and a guardroom, had been built as a military police station but fell empty in 1929. However as soon as the
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came to power the building, which by then was known as Columbia-Haus, was made into a prison, with 400 inmates held by September 1933.
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A motion was passed by Tempelhof district city council to lay a plaque on the site of the camp. The memorial was installed in 1994.
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members, was largely unregulated until 1934 when it was placed under the command of Walter Gerlach and his adjutant
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Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist Germany: A Process of Escalation into Mass Destruction
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KZ Columbia Memorial, diagonally opposite to its former site now covered by the airport building
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saw service in Columbia early in their careers. Notable amongst these was
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was to be adopted as the official name, in preference to Columbia-Haus.
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Hitler's Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security Police And The Banality Of Evil
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Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond
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Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945
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The camp was closed in 1936 to make way for the expansion of
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From 27 December 1934 the prison was administrated by the
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Index

Columbia-Haus
Columbushaus

Nazi concentration camp
Tempelhof
Berlin
Nazi Party
Schutzstaffel
Sturmabteilung
Arthur Liebehenschel
Gestapo
Communists
Social Democrats
Jews
Max Naumann
Concentration Camps Inspectorate
Reinhard Heydrich
the Holocaust
Karl Otto Koch
Richard Baer
Max Kögel
Theodor Dannecker
Berlin Tempelhof Airport
Sachsenhausen




Tom Segev
Berkley Books

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