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
Sweden during World War II interned in Swedish prison camps. At least seven of the internees committed suicide at their camp in the village of Rinkaby, rather than allowing themselves to be sent by Sweden to near certain death in the Soviet Union. In 1970, film director Johan Bergenstråhle made a documentary, (English title: "A Baltic Tragedy"), about the Latvian soldiers who were given to the Soviets to be sentenced to hard labor in prison camps. Sweden during World War II Sweden maintained its policy of neutrality during World War II. When the war began on September 1, 1939, the fate of Sweden was unclear.