Word: speers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today only three of Spandau's original postwar prisoners remain: Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, 59; Armaments Minister Albert Speer, 61; and that most mysterious of Hitler's odd coterie, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, 72. To keep this trio confined, Russia, France, Britain and the U.S still maintain a special four-power commission, and on a monthly rotation send 79 civilians, officers and men to run Spandau...
...annual cost of operating the six-acre complex is $106,750-a tab that is picked up by the Bonn government as war reparations. That is a high price per man to pay for incarceration, but at midnight, Sept. 30, the cost will rise even higher when Speer and Von Schirach are released after completing their 20-year sentences. Only Lifer Hess will remain in the costly keep...
Thinking is about all that Hess does these days. Unlike Speer and Von Schirach, who busied themselves in the Spandau garden and read voluminously (Speer raised exemplary gladioli; Von Schirach memorized passages from Dante's Divine Comedy), Hess, for the most part, lies on the floor of his 7-by 10-ft. cell, clad in grey shirt, brown corduroys and wooden clogs, and practices yoga. During exercise periods, he marches listlessly about the yard in a black overcoat with a white numeral 7 stenciled on its back. Sometimes he reads the Frankfurter Allgemeine or the Communist Neues Deutschland...
Though plans for such a Bank are still in the very early stages, Speer suggested that the initial subsidy for the project could perhaps be gotten from an international organization like the World Bank. Once begun, the enterprise would be "revolving," since money would be constantly repaid. He emphasized that a World Student Bank would have to be kept "above the political level." For this reason, it should not be under the control of individual governments...
While the Bank would be organized on an international level, Speer noted that it "has to rely on the initiative of one leader in each." Its organization within each country would be geared to the specific needs of that country; a nation, for example, whose economy was based on farming, might wish to send most of its students to study agriculture...