Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An interesting Relic from Rudolf Hess’s Cell at Spandau Prison

A bolt and chain in grey paint, nicely framed with a gilt plaquette below the bolt reading ‘’This Bolt is from the Cell Door of RUDOLF HESS, Spandau Prison, West Berlin, September 1987’, good condition £160-£200

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a prominent member of the Nazi Party who served as Deputy Führer of Germany from 1933 to 1941. Tried at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and was held in Spandau Prison, West Berlin, under a Four Power guard for the rest of his life, finally hanging himself in August 1987 at the age of 93. For the last 20 years of his life he had been Spandau Prison’s only inmate, and following his death the prison was demolished.