Spandau

[ shpahn-dou ]

/ ˈʃpɑn daʊ /

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noun

a district of Berlin, in E Germany: site of prison for Nazi war criminals.

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Words nearby Spandau

This did not frighten her, as her chest at Spandau had been swelled from thirty millions to ninety millions.
Ways of War and Peace|Delia Austrian
My father was a Jewish merchant, first in that town, and later in Spandau, where I passed my boyhood.
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ|Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
I then entered the army for one year as a volunteer doctor, and was sent to Spandau, and then to Jterberg.
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ|Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
Hopes were held out to him of the surrender of Kstrin, but he was assured that Spandau should never be his.
The Thirty Years' War|Samuel Rawson Gardiner

In the glorious annals of the empire one finds many passages like this: 'We have entered Spandau.
Saragossa|Benito Prez Galds