UH Professor David Dow wrote an op-ed for today’s Chron bemoaning the fact that Saddam Hussein will likely be hanged for his crimes. What caught my eye, though, is a rather glaring error in the piece:
Like Rudolph Hess, the former Nazi who was the sole resident of Spandau prison in France until he died at the age of 94, these aged monsters can become sympathetic figures, old men with walkers shuffling around prison yards who seem too gray and infirm to have committed the atrocities we know they did.
Spandau Prison was in Germany, specifically, in the Spandau borough of western Berlin. It’s such a strange error…does an editor review op-ed submissions?
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