The World - News from Oct. 24, 1986
An explosion ripped through an unused building outside West Berlin’s Spandau prison, where former Nazi Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess has been held for 40 years, and officials said they suspected it was a bombing by right-wing extremists. Neo-Nazis often stage demonstrations at Spandau to demand the release of the 92-year-old Hess, its only inmate. He is the only Third Reich leader still in prison. An anonymous caller to a German news agency claimed responsibility for the blast on behalf of the previously unknown “Rudolf Hess Freedom Commando.”
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