Spandau (locality) criminals who were sentenced to imprisonment at the Nuremberg Trials. After the death of its last inmate, Rudolf Hess in 1987, Spandau Prison was completely demolished by the Allied powers and later replaced by a shopping mall. Spandau is served by the Berliner S-Bahn lines S3 and S9 and by the U-Bahn line U7. The main railway station is Berlin Spandau, one of the most important of the city. Spandau (locality) Spandau is a locality ("Ortsteil") of Berlin in the homonymous borough ("Bezirk") of Spandau. The historic city is situated, for the most part, on the western banks of the
Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II the end of World War II, numerous Special Attack Units (Japanese: 特別攻撃隊, "tokubetsu kōgeki tai", also abbreviated to 特攻隊, "tokkōtai") were developed for suicide missions, in a desperate move to compensate for the annihilation of the main fleet. These units included "Kamikaze" ("Divine Wind") bombers, "Shinyo" ("Sea Quake") suicide boats, "Kairyu" ("Sea Dragon") suicide midget submarines, "Kaiten" ("Turn of Heaven") suicide torpedoes, and "Fukuryu" ("Crouching Dragon") suicide scuba divers who would swim under boats and use explosives mounted on bamboo poles to destroy both the boat and themselves. "Kamikaze" planes were particularly effective during the defense of Okinawa, in which