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 Prison Dönitz claiming for his entire ten years in prison that he was still the rightful head of the German state, he also got one vote in the 1954 West German presidential election, and Raeder having contempt for the insolence and lack of discipline endemic in his nonmilitary prison-mates. Despite preferring to stay together, the two of them continued their wartime feud and argued most of the time over whether Raeder's battleships or Dönitz's U-boats were responsible for "losing" the war. After Dönitz's release in 1956 he wrote two books, one on his early life, "My Ever-Changing Life", and one on