Spandau Prison journalist and DJ Robert Elms, saw the name 'Spandau Ballet' scrawled on the wall of a nightclub lavatory during a visit to Berlin. This gallows humour graffiti refers to standard drop method hangings at Spandau Prison when the condemned would twitch and jump at the end of a rope. The prison featured in the 1985 film "Wild Geese II", about a fictional group of mercenaries who are assigned to kidnap Rudolf Hess (played by Laurence Olivier), and in the book "Spandau Phoenix" by Greg Iles, which is a fictional account of Hess and Spandau Prison. Notes Bibliography Spandau Prison Spandau
Wilhelmstraße (Spandau) time. Before the Wilhelmstadt was called „Potsdamer“ or also „Pichelsdorfer Vorstadt“. The barracks were built between 1883 and 1886, then housing a train unit. Since the time when Spandau was part of the British Sector of Berlin the „Trainkaserne“ is also known as "Smuts Barracks". The Lutheran congregation of the close-by Melanchthon Church (EKBO), built in 1893, hosted the British garrison church community between 1945 and 1954, besides the new 1950-built Anglican St. George's Church in Westend, replacing its predecessor Englische Kirche zu St. Georg on Oranienburger Straße, destroyed in 1943 and 1944. Spandau Prison, also in Wilhelmstraße, was completed