1933 AN INGLORIOUS CHAPTER

In 1933 Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany - and was soon to plunge the whole world into misfortune. First the Olympic athletes trained in Lychen for the Berlin 36 Olympics and the big star of the Games, US sprinter Jesse Owens, underwent meniscus surgery in Hohenlychen. But with the athletes came the Nazis: Himmler and Speer ran their inhuman business from here for months, Hitler himself came to visit.

An inglorious, shameful chapter for the whole country - and also for the city of Lychen. Barbaric human experiments were carried out in the sanatoriums, the Jewish cemetery was destroyed, and a few kilometers away the National Socialists set up the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp.

At the place of the SOMMERFRISCHE at that time, the trader J. lived with his family. He had taken over the store in 1919, built the intermediate wing between the street house and the dyer's hut - and was obviously close to the National Socialists, because as early as 1935 he advertised the idea of operating a "NSDAP-approved sales outlet for clothing, equipment and badges". After the end of the war, he was expropriated.