Hermann Göring's Mysterious Death

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fell into American hands after his own fall from grace in April 1945. I already made a detailed video about the operation to seize the Reich's Marshall Link in the final screen, but I will briefly recap after seeing Hitler for the last time on Führer's Birthday April 20, 1945 Go

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, after packing up his vast collection of art treasures and personal luggage from his main residence in Karen Hull, headed south to the relative safety of the Obersalzberg, the mountain village in the south of Bavaria which was a closed private community for Hitler and A few senior elected leaders a few days later, after receiving confusing reports that Hitler had suffered a nervous breakdown in the Berlin bunker, sent a message to the Führer explaining that Goering would take the reins of power according to the succession law of 1941.

Martin Bormann's sinister secretary turned Guring's message into a power struggle and Hitler ordered him arrested, stripped of his titles and positions, and held by the SS under house arrest in Obersalzberg until an RAF air raid leveled the houses and then Maltendorf Castle. In Austria on May 7, 1945, Goering attempted to reach American lines in hopes of being seen as the rightful leader of Germany following Hitler's

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, but General Eisenhower sent a special US Army unit to stop the marshal. of the Reich who was stuck in traffic. jam and in danger of being captured by the rapidly advancing Red Army, the Americans took Goring prisoner and forced him to strip him of all his medals and decorations, a humiliation designed to ensure that Goring would be treated as a war criminal and not as a soldier, he was airlifted to a special detention camp for high-level war crimes suspects, called camp ashcan, located inside the palace hotel in mondorf, lebanon, luxembourg.

In 1945 he presented a very unhealthy condition, measuring five feet eight inches or 173 centimeters, but weighing 392 pounds or 118 kilos. He was also addicted to dihydrocodeine, which is a mild derivative of morphine. He took the equivalent of three or four grains or between 260 and 320 milligrams of morphine a day. The Americans were interested in Cornear living long enough to answer in court for his crimes. before they hanged him, so they put him on a strict diet and progressively took him off the pills, he lost 60 pounds or 27 kilos in weight and became much sharper mentally, which actually backfired on the Americans when he was put on trial in Nuremberg. conspiracy to wage a war of aggression war crimes, including the looting of works of art and crimes against humanity, including the torture and ill-treatment of prisoners of war and the murder and enslavement of civilians in reference to the Holocaust, pleaded not guilty on all charges and was tested and an IQ of 138 and knew he would eventually be executed, but he was determined to fight and launched a vigorous defense from the stand.

A sarcastic and intelligent man. He several times appeared as the top speaker during the cross-examination of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Robert H. jackson on the witness stand is herman gearing, prominent living exponent of nazi philosophy and prominent defendant among the many at trial, it is guging's turn to testify and answer questions from justice robert jackson united states attorney The courtroom is silent. Front Hess Ribentrop and the other members of Hitler's gang are intensely interested in the questioning. After Gehring's 55,000-word prepared speech, Judge Jackson asks him well, if you wanted certain people to be killed. you had to have some organization that would kill them, didn't you, roma and the rest of them were not killed by hitler's own hands or by theirs, they claimed that it was necessary to kill someone, you had to have someone to do it , It is not like this? loyalties nor his pride in the gigantic aggression organization that Nazi Germany created soft and brazen.

He had already openly expressed his support for all of Hitler's policies. His testimony was completed. Guering joins his colleagues. They are happy and to some extent relieved that he was forced to do it. he himself took on much responsibility the man who still boasts of his leadership in germany's war plans has had his day in court the machinery of democratic justice proceeds was on the stand from march 13 to 22, 1946 the chief prosecutor british sir david maxwell fife finally got the upper hand against him pointing out in a private letter about guring quote i must take my hat off to the old brig he maintains his interest in quotes after being cut down to size by maxwell's forensic interrogation 5 guring lost much of of his domineering aura and his power over the other defendants he was forced to exercise and eat alone unity among the other prisoners collapsed in court on September 30, 1946 the sentences were handed down after a trial that lasted 218 days was no surprise to anyone, and even less to imagine when he was found guilty of all four charges and sentenced to

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Guering expected the death penalty, but what offended him was the manner of execution. He appealed and demanded that, as a German officer and the only Reich Marshal in Germany, he should be executed by firing squad rather than the indignity of being hanged as a common criminal when this request was rejected. Guting evidently decided to die by his own hand, but as the Allies were fully aware that the prisoners at Nuremberg could escape justice by committing suicide, measures had been taken. Measures have been taken to prevent this from happening during the trial held inside the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.

The defendants lived in individual cells in a prison behind the courthouse. In command of the prison was Colonel Burton Andrus, a strict disciplinarian. US Army guards were told to treat prisoners with civility. and objectivity at all times andrus did not allow disrespect to the prisoners telling his men that before and during the trial the prisoners should be considered innocent until they were tried by the court the prison was dark extremely cold in the winter and humid outside there was Three tanks manned by military police were positioned at the front and rear entrances to prevent any attacks by pro-Nazis who might try to free the prisoners.

American infantrymen from the 1st Infantry Division were specially assigned to the trials as guards and guarded the entrances and were on duty in the courtroom, they also patrolled the prison blocks and observed the prisoners incredibly, as I revealed in another video highlighted on the final screen, helping with prison surveillance and wiring tasks was a special unit of former Estonian Waffen-ss men. Each cell had a single window embedded in its meter-thick concrete wall that practically did not allow any view of the outside world. The cells' heavy oak doors had an opening through which aluminum food trays could be passed.

Each prisoner received the same menu delivered by German prisoners from the adjacent civilian prison under American guards. Food prepared by US Army cooks. Each prisoner was assigned a number and addressed alone inside the cell. The prisoner had a bed. bench type, a simple toilet and a wooden table and chair, the last two objects were deliberately designed to collapse under the weight of a man to prevent attempts at hanging, however, one of the accused, the former leader of the Nazi labor front , Robert Lye, committed suicide, hanging himself using a towel torn from a drain pipe, after this the prisoners were constantly under suicide watch, guards watching through a peephole in the cell door. day and night the prisoners were housed according to their importance on the ground floor of the prison, the lower level of cells housed gurring and the other important Nazi defendants in 32 cells with a 60 meter central corridor dividing them into two groups of 16.

Guards were restricted by passes to their assigned areas. The next level of cells above held high-ranking SS personnel, including doctors. The second floor, or third in American parlance, held female SS personnel, including Ilsa Koch. Of the Buchenwald concentration camp, careful surveillance was carried out to avoid accusations of rape abuse or misconduct, although these SS women made constant accusations against the American guards, the guards fraternized with the prisoners. Yes, constantly, according to the former guards, every month, the nationality of the guards in the prison was rotated among the four allies, the Americans, the British, the French and the Soviets, each had their own rules. and punishments the guards lived in the prison with the defendants the American guards slept six to a room and had their own dining rooms each guard worked three days on three days off with shifts of four hours on four hours off each guard lasted two hours of standing stock still looking inside a cell guards were randomly assigned to prisoners according to a task list posted each morning in the courtroom guards had to stand still for hours behind assigned prisoners, a difficult and exhausting task Guards also rotated to patrol the cell block and yard over 50-foot-high parapet walls to keep an eye on the prisoners during their daily 20-minute exercise time.

They also occupied one of the four watchtowers at the corners of the walls. Some of the prisoners became friends with certain guards. Albert Spear Hitler's Minister of Armaments was noted for having always been respectful and a consumer gentleman according to some of the guards such as Colonel General Alfred Yodel, former chief of operations of the army high command, Eurokim von Ribentrop, former Minister of Foreign Affairs. Nazi exterior stood out as always friendly most of the prisoners spoke excellent English including, of course, Hermann Goering Goering enjoyed harassing his guards trying to anger them he also befriended some of them signing autographs and so on a manipulative character the growing influence Guring's claim on certain young soldiers has been seen as a possible way to obtain the cyanide capsule he used to end his life, so let's examine the theories surrounding Guring's death in a letter he left the prison governor. , Colonel Andrus, after his death, boasting that every time he entered the courtroom he had a cyanide capsule hidden in his boot and had a second capsule hidden in his cell inside a bottle of nivea cream but the question It is whether Corneo had these alleged capsules since his capture by the Americans or had obtained them from a third party after arriving at the prison.

When Goering was detained by American forces traveling in a convoy of vehicles, his large amount of luggage remained intact until He was transferred to US custody and formally surrendered. His luggage was searched for firearms and poison and went with him to the Ashkan camp and from there to Nuremberg, where the prisoner was. Luggage was kept locked in the prison inside a special room, although prisoners were allowed some clothing, toiletries, photographs, and other items in their cells. The cream has been variously described as hair cream, hand cream or ointment and arrived at the prison in Goering's luggage.

It seems unlikely that someone would not have stuck a finger into the jar to inspect the contents. The glass cyanide vial was hidden in a 46 millimeter long rifle cartridge-type brass case, making it quite difficult to conceal. This is the theory. One goring had the capsule with him at all times since it arrived with him and the normally thorough guards simply overlooked the jar of cream. The second scenario is that, if they are supposed to obtain the poison while in prison, the suspects are an American officer or soldier who, knowingly or unknowingly, also smuggles the poison. Goring in exchange for valuable personal property or perhaps an SS general held in Nuremberg, furthermore, a persistent and popular theory concerns an American officer, Lieutenant Jack G Wheelers, a former American football player with whom he certainly had a good relationship, who gave him several trinkets. to demonstrate friendship, including his expensive gold watch, the Wheelers were photographed wearing it after Guring's death.

Could Wheelis have been so under Guring's spell that he was prepared to risk serious punishment if he was caught giving Guring the painless outing he wanted, but he seems far away? It's crazy that an experienced officer like Wheelis would risk everything to get gored and getting valuable souvenirs was one thing, butcommit treason, another. Wheelis died only eight years after Gerring. So little is known today about his motives that some have suggested that Wheelis retrieved the cream bottle from the prison luggage store, at Goering's request, possibly containing the capsule and in exchange for some gift, but he would not have known that The cyanide was hidden inside him, so the best thing was that he was an ignorant and unwilling accomplice to suicide.

However, in 2005, a new suspect came forward this time with firsthand evidence that he had unknowingly given the capsule to Gerring. Herbert Lee Stivars was a guard at the prison who said he had kept silent for 60 years out of fear. to punishment some historians believe that stiva's story is plausible stivars, a 19-year-old soldier who had met an attractive local girl in 1946 during his free hours in Nuremberg, she had finally suggested that he take some special medication to the prison because it sounds like a case of sexual cheating, well, by his own admission, Stivers was going through a spell, chatting about sports and flying, he collected.

Guring, like the autographs of other important prisoners, found guard duty boring and the only fun was company clubs and local girls. His regular girlfriend, Hildegard Bruna, was happy to receive chocolate bars, cigarettes and peanuts from Stivers, which he passed to her mother. to sell on the black market, however, one day a flirtatious brunette named Mona approached Stivers and was interested in his job at the courthouse. She playfully refused to believe him until he showed her Balder von Sheerak's autograph. The former leader of the Hitler Youth kept it. and the next day he got Guring's autograph and gave it to Mona.

She introduced Stivers to his male friends Eric and Matthias. Stivers was told that Goring was very sick and that he was not receiving his medication in prison on two occasions. Stivers says he smuggled these men's notes on goering hidden in a ghost pen the third time eric put a capsule in the pen and stivers took it to imagine that after returning the pen to mona he never saw her or her. The two Germans again, Stivers maintained that Goering was never in a suicidal mood and stated that he would never have knowingly taken a suicide capsule. Two weeks later, on October 15, 1946, the eve of his execution, Guring committed suicide afterward. of an exhaustive search of his belongings in the prison.

He raided another cyanide capsule. He was found hidden in Goring's luggage, reinforcing the idea that Goring managed to smuggle two capsules into the prison. It is impossible to prove whether Stivers was telling the truth 60 years later, but it is a plausible scenario, although it is a plausible scenario who the Germans really were and what his relationship with Goring was. It has never been established, however, in 1951 former SS General Eric von Dembach Solovsky, who was commander of German forces during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising, claimed some responsibility for causing the capsule to be gored. He had in his possession another identical suicide capsule, the serial number of which he showed came from the same batch as the one taken by Guering Fondembak Solovsky appeared in Nuremberg as a prosecution witness.

He also never explained how he got the poison to reach Goring and he died in 1973, remaining silent. The US Army investigation into Guring's death concluded that the Reich Marshal always had the capsule with which he had used to commit suicide. They said that the Gurings secreted in various places on his person, including the rectum and also behind the edge of the toilet in his cell, this was pure speculation if he had had the capsule for some time it appears to have been hidden in hand cream, as Guering himself admitted in his note to Colonel Andrus. There is yet another suspect who arrived four decades after Guering's death to claim responsibility.

Ned Patzel was a member of the Office of Strategic Services. American wartime intelligence organization and direct precursor of the CIA, in fact he was assistant to the head of the OSS, William Donovan Patzell, claimed to have given the cyanide to the OSS. Grateful for Guring's cooperation in helping the organization in the next cold war. Donovan with a tacit British agreement. He ordered Puzzle to give Guring poison as a gesture of mercy, since Putzel said he was glad to have it, it was better than being hanged. that he simply handed it to Guring at a meeting. The only problem with Pathel's story is that the description he gave of the cyanide pill was different from the crushed glass vial found in Guring's mouth after the suicide, so you're probably waiting for him to give you an answer. . to Gerring's suicide, but I won't do it because I can't, no one can definitively answer the case, but we can establish a more probable scenario.

If I had to bet my money on any of the stories I've described on this show, I would. He chose Jack Wheelers as a candidate because, for several reasons, firstly, Wheelis was an officer who gave him free access to move around the prison without attracting too much attention, he had a key to the baggage room and Jude his obvious friendship. with goring, especially their shared interest in hunting. He would have easily taken the jar of cream from Guring's effects and taken it to his cell without knowing the contents of it. Goring was so pleased with Wheelis's cooperative attitude that he gave him his invaluable gold watch among many trinkets that I believe Goring had hidden. one vial of cyanide in the cream and another in his luggage before capture and both were overlooked during searches because the guards were soldiers and not police.

Once Gored had her day in court and learned the outcome, she acted quickly to make sure she had the poison on hand. and pointed out where it was hidden in his gloating letter to colonel andrus wheeler's scenario is the simplest and most obvious way to get the poison into goring's cell and involves no real subterfuge or outside parties or elaborate plots that we will never know about the absolute result. The truth, but we are left with the haunting vision of Hermann Goring, who had the last laugh, a vision that haunted Colonel Andrews until his death in 1977.

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