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Spandau ballet

It made sense after Nuremberg to put away a few Nazis during his hour a day in the yard Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess continued to goose step into his 90s and some called his exercise the Spandau ballet it was fitting that Hitler's architect Albert Speer should have been held in an artless hell also appropriate that Wiesbaden should have hosted an American base given it had been Goring's spa as well as Dostoevsky's and Nietzsche's too less safe was Eichmann's extradition from Argentina but Peron would never have surrendered him and anyway justice was served goose stepping to the end.

Si Wiesbaden, para bellum (I know a man, Part 3)

Fast forward a few years, and the King of Kensington gets drafted.  He goes to Wiesbaden in Germany, where the Americans have a base.  Wiesbaden was left remarkably untouched during WWII, Reich Marshal Hermann Goering (who graduated law in Wiesbaden before the war) having made a deal with General Eisenhower during the war to preserve Wiesebaden, which was a Roman spa town used by the Nazis during the war and favored by the Americans afterwards.  Goering's logic was simple.  Why destroy the beautiful town?  If Germany loses the war, the Americans would get it and be able to enjoy it the way the Nazis had.  Goering's daughter Edda worked as a nurse in rehabilitation clinic in Wiesbaden after the war.  I don't know if the King of Kensington ever met her, but you never know! The King of Kensington found himself at home in Wiesbaden, not because it was the army, but because the habits he formed back in the 'hood were still useful. Si vis pacem, para be...