Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man, spent 40 years in Spandau Prison in West Berlin, becoming the last Nazi in prison by 1987; he was the only inmate for the final two decades of his sentence, which began after his bizarre solo peace mission to Britain during World War II and subsequent conviction at the Nuremberg Trials.
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By 1987, the old man on screen had been inside a maximum security prison in West Berlin for 40 years. In a prison designed to hold over 600 inmates, he had been the only one there for the last two decades. At first glance, you would likely feel sorry for him, but that's only if you didn't know who he actually was. On the other hand, the people in the know were going to make sure he spent the rest of his life there. This was Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man, the last Nazi still in prison. And how he ended up like this is one of the most bizarre stories connected to the Third Reich and World War II. Head to my channel for the full story.
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