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Spandau

Suburb of Berlin, Germany. It was the site of Germany's principal arsenal in World War I; ‘Spandau’ machine guns (actually German-made Maxims) were named after it. The chief war criminals condemned at the Nuremberg Trials 1946 were imprisoned in the fortress here. The last of them was the Nazi leader Rudolf Hess, and the prison was demolished after his death 1987.



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