Lamp post

The lamp post was installed in Berlin-Spandau, the fifth of Berlin’s twelve boroughs. The borough used to be an independent town until 1920 when it was incorporated into Greater Berlin. During the division of Berlin between 1949 and 1990 Spandau was part of West Berlin – more specifically the British sector. In the years following World War II the borough was notorious for its prison, which accommodated a number of convicted high-ranking Nazi war criminals, including Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, Hitler’s chief architect Albert Speer, and Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess. The latter remained imprisoned until his death in 1987, after which the prison was demolished to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi place of pilgrimage. Subsequently, the rubble was pulverised and dumped into the North Sea.