Word: spandau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devastatingly intimate look at life within Hitler's inner circle-became an instant bestseller in West Germany and reached a wide audience abroad. The onetime Nazi architect in chief and Minister of Armaments and War Production has now completed a second memoir called Spandauer Tagebücher (Spandau Diaries). Appearing in serialized form in the West German daily Die Welt beginning next week, the Diaries cover Speer's years as an inmate in West Berlin's Spandau War Crimes Prison for forcing millions of non-Germans to work as slave laborers in the Third Reich...
...Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder of 50,000 Austrian Jews and spent 20 years at Berlin's Spandau prison...
...fortress at Spandau, perhaps, Rudolf Hess still takes his daily walks among the sparrows...
...Cellar. Life is almost as nerve-racking for the 20 inhabitants of 125-acre Eiskeller, a farm community on the northwest tip of the city. Connected to West Berlin by a one-lane, 800-meter road, Eiskeller (Ice Cellar) belongs to the Spandau district in the British sector. The shoulderless roadway is so narrow that no gas or electric lines can be installed: though it is the coldest part of the city, petroleum for both light and heat must be trucked in. Nonresidents must travel the dirt road under British escort, because Vopos lurk just off the roadway in case...
Four years ago, Speer was released from Spandau, where only Rudolf Hess remains. Now 65, he lives in Heidelberg, a nearly forgotten figure who works as a management consultant and relaxes by walking in the country. When he writes that he will never be rid of his sin, he convinces, partly because he now has little to gain by such an admission. Speer is right when he says, "no apologies are possible...