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    I guarded Albert Speer

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes

    In Berlin in 1961, aged 18, serving with the Royal Sussex Regiment, I was detailed for my first two-day duty as guard commander at the nearby gloomy Spandau Prison.

    It housed the last three Nazi war criminals: Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess; the Hitler Youth leader, Baldur von Shirach; and Hitler’s architect and Armaments Minister, Albert Speer. I ended up guarding Speer for three years.

    I was particularly interested in meeting Hess. In 1941, Hess flew to Scotland in a misguided

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