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former prison building in Spandau, Berlin

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52°31′16″N 13°11′07″E / 52.52111°N 13.18528°E / 52.52111; 13.18528 Spandau Prison was a 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. After the death of its last prisoner, Rudolf Hess, in August 1987, the prison was demolished and replaced by a shopping centre for the British forces stationed in Germany to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.

Spandau Prison in 1951 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Dorofeev (Soviet Union), MG John E. Rogers (US), West Berlin, 1 April 1981

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spandau Prison” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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