Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold WarSentenced 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