Word: spandau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From West Berlin's bleak Spandau Prison, an all but forgotten voice was heard. It belonged to Rudolf Hess, 70, who in May 1941, when he was Hitler's Deputy Führer, flew from Germany to Scotland on a bizarre mission. He begged the British to make peace, but all he did was force Hitler to denounce him as insane, and land himself in a British jail. Hess was sent to Spandau after being convicted of war crimes at Nürnberg, and over the years rumors of madness cropped up again, fed by his refusal...
...nearly 70 now-a dark, brooding, badger-faced man living in near-total oblivion in the enormous stone pile that is Spandau prison. But in May 1941, when Rudolf Hess suddenly landed in a cow pasture in Scotland and asked to see the Duke of Hamilton, the Deputy Führer of the Third Reich was full of high hope...
Still aflame with mad little mutinies, wizened Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hess, 67, was entertaining himself in his cell in Berlin's dreary Spandau Prison* by wheedling cigarettes from his warders. "They know it's forbidden to give the prisoners cigarettes," explained one guard last week, "but whenever a new bunch comes on duty, they figure he's just a harmless old man, so they hand a few through the bars." Then, after his last puff, the onetime Deputy Führer summons a senior warder for a look at the verboten butts, "reveling in the knowledge...
...four of them men-whose living expenses, like those of all Mormon missionaries, are met by their own families and friends. Berlin's first red brick Mormon church was built eleven years ago. Another church, of radically modern design, was built last year in the northwestern Spandau section, and two more will go up soon...
...Meeting in West Berlin's Spandau Johannesstift Building, the synod's 79 West German and 41 East German delegates had ample provocation to slap back at the Reds by choosing Lilje. The East German regime had just announced that no sessions of the annual Protestant rally, called Kirchentag, could be held in East Berlin next July, and had stopped Bishop Lilje and four other West German bishops on their way to a Sunday service at the Marienkirche. But the delegates decided that the immediate pleasure of electing Bishop Lilje might be offset by Communist reprisals during...