Spandau Prison his time as an admiral, "Ten Years and Twenty Days". Raeder, in failing health and seemingly close to death, was released in 1955 and died in 1960. Rudolf Hess, sentenced to life but not released due to ill health like Raeder, Funk, or Neurath, served the longest sentence out of the seven and was by far the most demanding of the prisoners. Regarded as being the 'laziest man in Spandau', Hess avoided all forms of work that he deemed below his dignity, such as pulling weeds. He was the only one of the seven who almost never attended the prison's
Suicide in literature his short stories included suicidal themes. The poet Sylvia Plath committed suicide by self-asphyxiation in 1963. “Once suicide was accepted as a common fact of society- not as a noble Roman alternative, nor as the mortal sin it had been in the Middle Ages, nor as a special cause to be pleaded or warned against- but simply as something people did, often and without much hesitation, like committing adultery, then it automatically became a common property of art." - diaz, 1971. Suicide in literature It is common to depict suicide in literature. Suicide, the act of deliberately killing oneself, is