Pursuit in Elmshorn
From January 1933, the persecution, abuse and extermination of people for political, racial, religious and ideological reasons by the National Socialists began everywhere in Germany. Also in Elmshorn.
political resistance
Between December 1934 and February 1935 there were mass arrests of members of the Elmshorn workers' movement who were resisting the National Socialist terror regime. A number of the 290 people arrested were badly mistreated in the police station and taken to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. There the National Socialists murdered, among others, the former Elmshorn KPD member of the Reichstag, Reinhold Jürgensen.
Furthermore, 261 women and men from Elmshorn and the surrounding area were admitted
sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.