The Masonic hospital in Hamburg suffered under the National Socialist (Nazi) regime, as did all Masonic facilities. To protect its work, the administration changed the nature of the hospital into an association and then, in 1935, as pressure against Freemasonry increased, changed the name of the hospital.

Renamed the Elizabeth Hospital it - secretly - bore the name of the mother of John the Baptist, patron saint of Freemasonry.

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