Feisthauer lost his job in 1938 because of his lack of Nazi membership. He lost his concession for the foods business. He was instructed to collect donations for the Nazi Party, but refused. On 23 JuneMemorial und Museum Sachsenhausen: Archiv, Document No.: D 1 A / 1020 ,Bl. 261 He was brought to Sachsenhausen concentration camp as part of the Aktion Arbeitsscheu Reich He remained there until 1 February 1939.Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen: Archiv, Document No.: D 1 A / 1024 ,Bl. 048 His prisoner number was 005680, he was placed in block 22.Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen: Archiv, Document No.: D 1 A / 1024 ,Bl. 048 In the concentration camp he was tortured, inter alia, Chinese water torture. He was taken to the concentration camp with two other men, one of whom did not return. Feisthauer was a wrecked man when he returned to Eckersdorf. He was so pale and skinny that his family did not recognized him in the first moments. They wanted to send "the strange man" away when they saw him that first time.
