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Spandau Prison was a former military prison located in the Spandau borough of West Berlin (present-day Berlin, Germany ). Built in 1876, it became a proto-concentration camp under Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, it held seven top Nazi leaders convicted in the Nuremberg trials.
Vierzig Jahre lang verwalteten die Siegerländer des Zweiten Weltkriegs gemeinsam das Berliner Gefängnis Spandau für NS-Verbrecher.
- Boris Jegorow
31. Aug. 1987 · As Adolf Hitler’s closest friend and the former deputy to the Fuhrer of the Third Reich, Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. He remained Spandau’s only...
Built in 1876 along Wilhelmstrasse in West Berlin, Spandau Prison originally served as a Prussian military detention center and was later used to hold civilian and political prisoners. On July 18, 1947, the prison took on a new role as the holding place of the seven high-ranking Third Reich officials.
After 1946 the Spandau Prison, on the Wilhelmstrasse, housed Nazi war criminals sentenced by the Allies. The prison was demolished following the death of the last inmate, Rudolf Hess, in 1987. Spandau is the chief industrial area of Berlin, with the electrotechnical firm of Siemens in the Siemensstadt…. Read More.
Spandau Prison was a prison in the borough of Spandau in the British Sector of West Berlin. The prison was built in 1876 and knocked down in 1987 after the death of its last prisoner, Rudolf Hess . This was to stop it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
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...
