Word: spandau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the dirty red brick fortress of Spandau in the British sector of Berlin, behind a maze of walls, electric fences and steel doors guarded by the machine guns and soldiers of four nations, Prisoner No. 3, an old man of 81, was dying. Once...
...Audience. He was the only one of the war criminals in Spandau who got along with all six of his companions. Albert Speer, No. 5, Hitler's production genius, said: "If we didn't have Von Neurath, we would all go crazy." They were an ill-assorted lot: fat, bald, obscene Walter Funk (No. 6); rich, young, suicidal Baldur von Schirach (No. 1); dangerous, unrepentant ex-Admiral Karl Doenitz (No. 2); weird, half-sane Rudolf Hess (No. 7): arthritic, pious ex-Admiral Erich Raeder (No. 4). Von Neurath would recall for them the glittering days when...
...Spandau, with his unloved and unloving mates, he was always courteous and rarely complained, as they did. But to his wife, the baroness, he wrote: "I don't think I can stand it much longer." Repeatedly, Britain, France and the U.S. suggested to Russia (which shares in the running of Spandau) that old Baron von Neurath be let out of prison to die. Each time the Russians said no. Sir Winston Churchill confessed in the House of Commons: "Von Neurath has my sympathy...
...Spandau prison in East Berlin, the commander of the Russian guard pulled off his glove to greet his U.S. counterpart with the barehanded grip of friendship...
...Corps members (somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000) swore fresh fealty to Adolf Hitler, took their oaths on a copy of Mein Kampf, insisted that the rightful leader of Germany is Admiral Karl Doenitz, Hitler's designated heir, who still has three more years to pay in Spandau prison for his war crimes. A threadbare, ragtag lot, the Freikorps met, often in groups of 150, in beer halls, and talked of a Nazi government in West Germany, "possibly by 1957." Unlike the group arrested by the British, which was clever enough to realize that neo-Nazis must avoid...