Letter released to National Archives reveals how chancellor of West Germany complained about conditions for inmates including Albert SpeerNazi war criminals held in the infamous Spandau prison after the moment world were treated exceedingly harshly”,and could not sleep because of fixed security searchlights, according to Konrad Adenauer, and West Germany’s first postwar chancellor,in a letter released by the National Archives.
Inmates at the Berlin jail – the running of which was shared on monthly rotation between the Allied powers of UK, US, and France and Soviet Union – were also prohibited from conversing or reading,Adenauer complained to Allied officials in the letter, dated 21 June 1950.
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Source: guardian.co.uk