Britannia Centre Spandau

Britannia Centre Spandau centralised the main shopping, welfare, employment and broadcasting facilities for the British military community in Berlin.

In 1982 a Four Power Agreement was reached, which included a statement from the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Richard von Weizsäcker, that Spandau Prison should be demolished as quickly as possible after the death of its lone inmate Rudolf Hess.

Five weeks after the death of Hess on 17 August 1987 at 1610 hours,[2] the demolition of Spandau Prison began and was completed on 4 November 1987.

The shopping centre was also nicknamed Hessco's[3] after the well known British supermarket chain, Tesco, and the prison's final occupant.

The two main buildings were not protected, therefore the responsible office at the Bezirksamt Spandau was unable to refuse the request for demolition.