Spandau Prison - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• The SS commando Otto Skorzeny, who freed Benito Mussolini from his captors in 1943, claimed in an interview in 1953 that, given "a hundred reliable men and two helicopters", he could easily have freed all of those held in Spandau Prison.
• British comedian Bernard Manning served as an armed guard at the prison shortly after being called up to the British Army just after World War II.
• A British Army soldier who served as an armed guard there in the 1980s was interviewed by Soldier Magazine in the late 1990s. He claimed that Spandau prison was haunted and being on guard, alone, in the watch towers at night could be a harrowing experience. Allegedly, one soldier was found unconscious, having fired his semi-automatic rifle at what he claimed was an apparition.