Word: spandau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nitz stood trial with other ranking Nazis at Nürnberg, but was not accused of any atrocities and received the lightest sentence: ten years. Released from Spandau prison in 1956, he retreated into obscurity, seeing only occasional visitors. Some West Germans felt last week that Dönitz, dying so long after the Nazi era, should have been suitably honored for his naval career. Others disagreed. Said Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung in an editorial: "A line should be clearly and properly drawn between today's navy and Hitler's, between today's Federal...