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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Office of the Governor (Spandau Prison), British...
Catalogue reference: FCO 161
What's it about?
FCO 161
This series contains records which document the running of Spandau prison and the lives of the prisoners. The records were sent to the UK by the last British Governor after the death of the last inmate and the dismantling of the prison in 1987....
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 161
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Office of the Governor (Spandau Prison), British Military Government, Berlin: Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records which document the running of Spandau prison and the lives of the prisoners. The records were sent to the UK by the last British Governor after the death of the last inmate and the dismantling of the prison in 1987. The collection includes documents held as evidence in the Hess theft case and returned by the Prosecutor's Office.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also FCO 90
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English, French, German and Russian
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Allied Kommandatura, 1945-1990
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British Military Government, Berlin, 1968-1990
- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Military Government, British Sector, Berlin, 1947-1953
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 71 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2017 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Crime
- Prisons
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1947 to 1988
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Occasional further accruals can be expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selected under Record Collection Policy criteria 1.1, documenting the work of diplomatic staff in Berlin operating as part of the British Military Government. Policy files preserved where information on the files has not been copied to FCO in London or other lead department.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The British Military Government, Berlin, was established after the Second World War to run the British sector of Berlin and work with the forces of the other allied states to manage the various joint bodies established in the city.
After the war Spandau Prison was operated by the Four-Power Authorities to house the Nazi war criminals sentenced to imprisonment at the Nuremburg Trials. Each of the four countries (France, UK, USA and USSR) were represented by a governor, and each took turns being responsible for overall administration and the changing of the guard for the prison.
Spandau Prison closed in 1987 following the death of the last inmate, Rudolf Hess, and was demolished.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16381764/
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