“What do you expect in a loft? Some ancient Christmas decorations, maybe an obsolete computer… but definitely not Nazi propaganda posters.” Yet that’s what faced Craig Lambert from Barry, when he had to clear out his father’s attic after his death in 2019. Between 1951 and 1955 Royal Welch Fusiliers Sergeant Major Colin Lambert was detailed to guard Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, during his life-long sentence at Spandau Prison in Berlin. Some of the artefacts with which he returned from Germany would remain a secret until his death. (…) Mr Lambert said: “Dad had only one prisoner – Hess – to guard on an entire wing at Spandau. “He’d get bored, because he loved chatting, and one night he was caught gossiping and sharing a cigarette with Rudolph Hess.” Incredibly, it was Hess himself who reported Colin, and as communicating with Hess was strictly forbidden for Allied guards, Colin was sentenced to a fortnight in military prison.
via bbc: World War Two: Guard of Nazi and his propaganda artefacts