“Eh, they lived to 86 and 76 respectively.”
I agree on the second, maybe it was another Nazi I was thinking of. ‘Course, Speer got to appear on talk shows and plug his best-sellers, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau, after he was released from prison. Klaus Barbie (the Butcher of Lyon) died in a French prison at 77 which wasn’t that old either. I remember 60 Minutes doing a story on another one who lived in a French prison and he was the only person there! Seemed like he was pretty old, but I can’t remember who. Khomeini, on the other hand, lived beyond what was average for men then, 3 months short of 87. Having been personally affected by his takeover, I still think he lived far too long after that mess. Many, many evil people live pretty long lives, especially compared to the lives of all those they cut short.
You’re probably thinking of Rudolph Hess, who died in Spandau Prison at the age of 93, found with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck. The circumstances of Hess’s death are very strange, because by all accounts he was quite frail by the end (requiring daily nursing care) and didn’t have the mobility to string a cord up and hang himself.
Some sources claim that British secret service agents did him in, although it would seem rather senseless to kill a frail old man who was probably going to die soon anyway. Unless of course they had it in for Hess to the point where they weren’t going to allow him a natural death under any circumstances.