In Popular Culture
- The prison featured in the 1985 film Wild Geese II, about a fictional group of mercenaries who are assigned to kidnap Rudolf Hess (played by Laurence Olivier).
- The book Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles is a fictional account of Rudolph Hess and Spandau Prison.
- 'The Novak Legacy' by John Douglas-Gray, a fictional thriller which starts with the murder of Hess in Spandau. ISBN 978-0-7552-1321-4
- 'The British Garrison Berlin 1945-1994' w.Durie, ISBN 978-3-86408-068-5,( In English) Vergangenheits Verlag Berlin
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