Spandau Prison was a former military prison located in the Spandau borough of West Berlin. 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 (USA)W.Berlin.1.4.1981
Changing the guard (US troops left and British right) at Spandau Prison
Erich Raeder released from Spandau Prison, 26 September 1955, with his wife at the Bürger-Hospital in Berlin-Charlottenburg
Spandau is the westernmost of the 12 boroughs of Berlin, situated at the confluence of the Havel and Spree rivers and extending along the western bank of the Havel. It is the smallest borough by population, but the fourth largest by land area.
Old town of Spandau
Old Town and Saint Nikolai Church