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Last Nazi Hess Housed in Spandau with Uniform on Display
Hess the 73 year old former deputy fuehrer to Hitler waits in Spandau prison under joint Allied guard. A silver swastika emblem gleams on his last Nazi uniform kept there for potential future fate. Speer von Schirach freed after two year sentences. Soviets oppose release citing ill health. Allies consider humane grounds and cutting prison area to house a single inmate.
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Berlin
Rudolf Hess
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Spandau Prison
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Gieseve
Albert Speer
Baldur von Schirach
Spandau
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France
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