Originally Posted by davecummings

Rudolf Hess, hitler's deputy who was post-war sentenced to life in Berlin's Spandau Prision, was a prisoner whom I had to check on every time I was the U.S Army Command Duty Officer while stationed with the Berlin Brigade 1964-1966.

Like the other Command Duty Officers, I had to go into the prision and physically "lay eyes" on him to make certain that he was still in his cell.

Berlin was an interesting assignment, especially the patrols though Checkpoint Charlie into and around the Russian Sector on the other side of The Wall.