There was such a prison in history, which was jointly supervised by the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France, and there were 4 prison directors, 1 prison priest, 17 managers, 20 officers, 33 soldiers and 4 doctors. But it was such an unbreakable prison that there was only one prisoner.
Not only that, but the prison officials "served well" and built a summer house for the prisoner so that he could spend his old age in peace, making the prisoner fortunate to be the highest-treated and at the same time the loneliest prisoner in the world. This prison was once upon a time
Spandau
The military prison, this prisoner is famous
Hess
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Hess was born into a merchant family and lived as a family in the grand port of Arishan, Egypt. At that time, Egypt was a British colony, and with the superior conditions of hess's family, as a rich second generation, he easily integrated into the local high society and naturally became acquainted with the British capitalists. It was here that Hess became acquainted with The British.
During World War I, Hess, who was a young man, joined the army and was wounded. After the war, he studied at the University of Munich. During this time, one evening, Hess stumbled upon a speech by Hitler, admiring his eloquence, and later, he became a member of the Nazi Party and, from then on, began to follow Hitler.
He was sent to prison after the Beer Hall Riots, where Hitler had already served seven months in the same prison. In prison, Mein Kampf, dictated by Hitler and compiled by Hess, was completed. During this time, Hess made a lot of changes to the contents of the book, so Hess was also one of the authors of the book.
After Hitler led the Nazi Party to power, Hess, as his follower, was promoted to SS general and even took over as Chancellor of Germany. Eventually, Hitler appointed him "Deputy Führer" in charge of party affairs. At this point, Hess became Hitler's most trusted deputy and his rightful successor.
On an ordinary afternoon in 1941, Hess bid farewell to his family and headed to the airport alone, flying a Me-110 fighter jet to Britain in an attempt to negotiate peace with the British side. As Hitler's future successor, when he was in the ascendant, he ran to England alone, and the result was self-evident, Hess was detained by The British.
At the same time, this incident also put both Britain and Germany in an embarrassing situation in the stalemate of the war. Although the British have repeatedly downplayed the matter, the media of the United States and the Soviet Union have alluded to the fact that the two countries are in cahoots. French resistance was even more outspoken in condemning Britain's "betrayal."
At the same time, the Italian and Japanese governments were puzzled by Hess's astonishing actions and suspected that Hitler was half-hearted about them. Hitler was even more manic about Hess's exodus, and the Nazi Party radio claimed that Hess was mentally ill.
At the end of World War II, the treatment of war criminals was also on the agenda. Despite the Soviet Union's strong demands that they should be executed. But eventually, Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in July 1947 and subsequently transferred to spandau military prison, where he became a prisoner numbered 7.
As time passed, the number of Nazi war criminals held in prisons either died or were released at the end of their sentences gradually decreased. Until the end, the prison was guarded by British, French, American and Soviet soldiers, holding hundreds of prisoners, and later only Hess was left.
Hess lived a regular life in prison, and he was allowed to read 3 German-language newspapers designated by the prison. His family has also not given up on trying to fight for Hess to regain his freedom. But this never went so far, and even though Hess was left alone in prison, the British government did not release him in the end.
By 1987, Hess had spent 46 years in prison, at the age of ninety-three.
The elderly man has long lost the style of the past, and now he cannot take care of himself, and the governments of the United States, Britain and France have repeatedly proposed to release Hess from prison on parole, but they have been rejected by the Soviet Union.
In 1987, Hess took advantage of the lack of attention of the prison guards and secretly hanged himself (he said he killed). To this day, it is still impossible to understand what kind of considerations Hess had to fly to England alone. If you want to know this now, I am afraid that you will have to wait until the archives are declassified.
Hess's family, however, did not accept the official claim of suicide. Finally, at the insistence of Hess's family, the doctors at the medical school performed a second autopsy on Hess' death, four days after his death.
The conclusion shows that if you hang yourself, the rope will be tightened so that the stranglehold from the rope is facing upwards. But in fact, Hess has a wound on his neck that can only be wounded by the rope wrapped many times, and the traces are in a parallel state, according to which it is indeed murder, but it is still uncertain who did it.
Of course, whether the elderly Hess ended his own life or died at the hands of others, it did not prevent him from becoming the highest-treated Nazi war criminal in the world, and at the same time the loneliest. Although imprisoned and not free, he was the longest-lived of any senior allied leader, sending away all his comrades and enemies.