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Rudolf Hess spent over 20 years as the sole inmate of the 600-cell Spandau Prison
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The English band Spandau Ballet got its name from World War I slang for bodies hanging on barbed wire, twitching from Spandau machine-gun fire from the German lines. In World War II, it referred to the twitching prisoners' bodies, including Nazi war criminals, hung at Spandau prison.
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Adolf Hitler’s "Deputy Führer" of the Nazi Party, Rudolf Hess, was convicted and sentenced to life in Spandau Prison on Oct. 1, 1946. He was the sole occupant in the 600-cell prison from 1966 until his apparent suicide in 1987. He was 93 years old.
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The Soviet Union vetoed the release of a Nazi war criminal at Spandau Prison possibly so they could continue to observe a German military base. He was the only remaining prisoner at the time of his death.
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The deputy Führer to Hitler, Rudolph Hess, spent 21 years as the sole prisoner of Spandau Prison before hanging himself in 1987, at the age of 93
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Nazi war criminal Albert Speer "Traveled" across the world during his imprisonment at Spandau Prison. He would walk a path around the prison garden daily, meticulously visualizing every meter of the places he was walking to. He "Traveled" over 31,000 km before his release in 1966.
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Nazi Rudolf Hess' favorite TV shows in Spandau Prison during the 1980s were Dallas and Dynasty.
