Wilhelmstraße (Spandau) in 1881. It was occupied by seven war criminals, convicted in the Nuremberg Trials, including Rudolf Heß who committed suicide there. After he had died, the prison was demolished and a social and shopping centre, "The Britannia Centre Spandau", was built there. At the corner Wilhelmstraße to Heerstraße is also a bus depot of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). Wilhelmstraße (Spandau) The Wilhelmstraße in the Berliner district of Spandau is the connecting street between Spandau and Potsdam. In the north, at Seeburger Straße and the Ziegelhof, the Wilhelmstraße runs into the Klosterstraße, about a kilometre south of Spandau Station. It crosses
Spandau Synagogue Spandau Synagogue Spandau Synagogue ("Synagoge Spandau") was a synagogue at 12 Lindenufer in the Old Town area of Spandau, Berlin, Germany. It was also known as Spandauer Vereinssynagoge (i.e. Spandau private synagogue). The synagogue was built in 1894–95 and was destroyed on 9 November 1938 (Kristallnacht) when it was set on fire. The ruins were removed, probably in 1942. The site is now marked by a memorial tablet, installed in 1988. The congregation maintained a Jewish cemetery, on Spandau's Neue Bergstrasse, which was closed in 1940. In 1844 there were only six Jewish families in Spandau. They held services in