Guard 'gave Goering suicide pill' - Democratic Underground

MrPrax

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:02 PM
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Guard 'gave Goering suicide pill'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4247069.stm

A former US guard says he unwittingly gave Nazi leader Hermann Goering the poison he used to commit suicide.

Goering killed himself only hours before he was scheduled to be hanged in 1946, following his conviction for war crimes at the Nuremberg trials.

Now Herbert Lee Stivers, who was a 19-year-old guard at the trials, says he agreed to carry "medicine" to the imprisoned Nazi air force chief.

He said he was talked into it after meeting a flirtatious local girl.

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Sounds like a pulp novel

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:07 PM
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1. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1219668

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