Spandau Prison transferred to these concentration camps. After World War II the prison fell in the British Sector of what became West Berlin but it was operated by the Four-Power Authorities to house the Nazi war criminals sentenced to imprisonment at the Nuremberg Trials. Only seven prisoners were finally imprisoned there. Arriving from Nuremberg on 18 July 1947, they were: Of the seven, three were released after serving their full sentences, while three others (including Raeder and Funk, who were given life sentences) were released earlier due to ill health. Between 1966 and 1987, Rudolf Hess was the only inmate in 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