Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War [Hardcover]

Tales from Spandau describes the four-decade tug of war between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies over the fate of Nazi Germany's top officials.Based on long-secret records, Tales from Spandau describes the four-decade tug of war between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies over the fate of Nazi Germany's top officials, from Hitler's designated successor Karl D?nitz, to his architect Albert Speer, to his top deputy Rudolf Hess.Based on long-secret records, Tales from Spandau describes the four-decade tug of war between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies over the fate of Nazi Germany's top officials, from Hitler's designated successor Karl D?nitz, to his architect Albert Speer, to his top deputy Rudolf Hess.Sentenced to long prison terms at the Trial of the Major War Criminals at Nuremberg, seven of Adolf Hitler's closest associates - Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer, Karl D?nitz, Erich Raeder, Walther Funk, Konstantin von Neurath, and Baldur von Schirach - were to have become forgotten men at Berlin's Spandau Prison. Instead they became the focus of a bitter four decade tug-of-war between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies - a dispute on the fault line of the Cold War itself which drew in heads-of-state, military strategists, powerful businessmen, vocal church leaders, old-world aristocrats, international spies, and neo-Nazis. Drawing on long-secret records from four countries, Norman J. W. Goda provides an exciting new perspective on the terrifying shadow thrown by Nazi Germany on the Cold War years, and how that shadow helped to influence the Cold War itself.1. A tomb for the living; 2. An enduring institution; 3. Von Neurath's ashes: the battle over memory; 4. Hitler's successor: a tale of two admirals; 5. The foiled escape: Albert Speer's twenty years; 6. 'I regret nothing': the problem of Rudolf Hess. In Tales from Spandau Norman Goda demonstrates convincingly that the conditions of punishment at Spandau Prison for those convicted at the InternationlÃ*