 The Otto-Braun-House was requisitioned to become the headquarters of the SA, which used the house to imprison and torture its opponents.Walter Schütz, a communist member of the Reichstag, was murdered here.In 1938 the Nazis altered about one-third of the toponyms of the area, eliminating, Germanizing, or simplifying a number of Old Prussian, as well as those Polish or Lithuanian names originating from colonists and refugees to Prussia during and after the Protestant Reformation.