Eine 15 Quadratmeter große Gartenlaube auf dem Gefängnisgelände. Darin ein Stuhl, eine Sauerstoffflasche und ein Kabel, das am Fenstergriff verknotet wurde. Es ist das Kabel, mit dem sich Adolf ...

The remains of Nazi leader Rudolf Hess were exhumed from his grave in Germany after it became a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. On Wednesday, his body was taken from his grave in the northern Bavarian ...

Berlin, April 1, 1987: Soviet guards pose for a photo as they prepare to end their tour of duty at Spandau Prison. For the past 21 years, the prison’s sole occupant was loopy Hitler henchman Rudolf ...

On this day, Aug. 17, in 1987, Rudolf Hess, the last surviving member of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s inner circle, was found strangled to death in an apparent suicide. Hess died in Spandau Prison in ...

Something was dead in each of us, And what was dead was Hope. —Ballad of Reading Gaol Nearly two decades ago, seven men stepped hopelessly from a van in the red brick forecourt of Berlin’s Spandau ...

Spandau Prison in Berlin was a red brick structure, on the western side of the city, constructed in the 1870s with the capacity to hold several hundred inmates. The Nazis ...

Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent a personal plea to the leaders of the Big Four wartime powers to pardon Hitler’s former deputy Rudolf Hess, who spent 40 years in prison is now 92 and reportedly ill.