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...URGENTLY PROTEST THE TENOR OF YOUR JUNE 2 ARTICLE ON THE GERMAN WAR PRISONERS AT SPANDAU REFERENCE TO THESE MEN AS "SEVEN OF THE BLACKEST NAZIS STILL ALIVE" IS CONTRARY TO FACT, BIASED, AND SERVES TO PREJUDICE THE PENDING APPEALS FOR THESE MEN. RUDOLF HESS TOOK POSITIVE ACTION FOR PEACE EARLY IN WORLD WAR II. GRAND ADMIRAL DOENITZ AND ADMIRAL RAEDER WERE COURAGEOUS NAVAL LEADERS. BARON VON NEURATH, ALBERT SPEER, WALTER FUNK AND BALDUR VON SCHIRACH WERE FAITHFUL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIALS. ALL OF THESE GENTLEMEN DID THEIR DUTY AS THEY SAW IT AND THEIR MISFORTUNE LAY MERELY IN BEING...
...grubby, working-class suburb of Spandau in the British sector of Berlin stands a huge, rust red castle surrounded by 15 acres of grounds and a stout brick heptagonal wall. This is Spandau Fortress...
From the time the seven inmates passed through the heavy iron gates of Spandau (in July 1947, when many of their fellow conspirators were being hanged), the four-power administration has kept prison doings secret. The wardens are agreed in wanting their seven infamous prisoners kept from public notice; if possible, they want them to be completely forgotten by the German public...
Ailing & Aging. Last week a crack appeared in the secrecy wall. Frau Walter Funk, who occasionally visits her husband in the prison, called a press conference in Bonn. The Spandau prisoners are ailing and aging, she reported. Hess is "even more insane and often screams." Neurath is almost blind and must be led about the prison. She painted a tearful picture of the dethroned supermen (actually they have four doctors to guard their health, gardens to work in, books to read...
Naundorff's own early life was as clouded in obscurity as the Dauphin's, death. In 1812, he was run out of Berlin for claiming to be King of France. He moved to Spandau and wrote Louis XVI's daughter Maria Therese a letter saying, "I am alive, your real brother. Ask me to prove it." Maria, then the Duchess of Angouleme, paid no attention, but others were more sympathetic. The mayor of Spandau believed Naundorff and took him to Brandenburg. There Naundorff was arrested for arson and jailed for counterfeiting, but two years later...