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Today only three of Spandau's original postwar prisoners remain: Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, 59; Armaments Minister Albert Speer, 61; and that most mysterious of Hitler's odd coterie, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, 72. To keep this trio confined, Russia, France, Britain and the U.S still maintain a special four-power commission, and on a monthly rotation send 79 civilians, officers and men to run Spandau...
...that is picked up by the Bonn government as war reparations. That is a high price per man to pay for incarceration, but at midnight, Sept. 30, the cost will rise even higher when Speer and Von Schirach are released after completing their 20-year sentences. Only Lifer Hess will remain in the costly keep...
Happy to Try. Tall, hollow-eyed Rudolf Hess has been a prisoner ever since the night of May 10, 1941, when he shocked the world by parachuting from a Messerschmitt fighter onto the Duke of Hamilton's estate in Scotland. His mission, he claimed, was to end the war between "the great Nordic nations" Britain and Germany. Hess did not have the approval of Hitler for his peacemaking mission, and indeed was quickly denounced by the Führer as "crazy." Hess remains convinced of the sacredness of his mission. "True, I achieved nothing," he wrote. "I could...
...when it collapsed some years back, he was thrown into a deep depression. Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Jacob Lateiner and Leon Fleisher at one time all craved Old 199, and they passed it around among themselves so that each could have it for major concerts. Dame Myra Hess used to think of her pianos as so many husbands, once cabled Steinway...
Died. Dame Myra Hess, 75, British concert pianist, who passed unnoticed when she made her debut amid the flamboyant virtuosos of the early 1900s, but later established herself as one of the leading musicians of her day, bringing graceful proportion and artistry to the works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, during World War II earned the admiration of blitz-weary Londoners and the Order of Dame Commander for inaugurating a six-year series of noontime concerts in the National Gallery; of a heart attack; in London...