“How did he obtain the cyanide capsule that ended his life?”
Berlin Walgreen’s ?
He died on the eve of his scheduled execution. So he met Beelzebub twelve hours earlier than scheduled. The same end was accomplished — the monster was dispatched.
The OSS theory is by far the weakest.
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Göring was supposedly a major drug-addict. He was improned by the allies for quite a while during the trial.
I’ve never heard that he suffered withdrawal symptoms.
OR that there were Allied doctors supplying him with his ‘fix’ to keep him able to be properly in his War Crimes Trial...
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Somewhere I read that it was thought that a sympathetic guard smuggled him the cyanide. Who knows? He still died in prison, the criminal.
Is he the one who had an American nephew who flew bombing raids on Germany during WWII?
These characters are interesting...as vile as he was there was still a strength of character he had that most do not possess.
Other first hand accounts portray Goering, the military fashion designer as effiminate.
Like Goring, the guard was a hunting enthusiast and the two had developed a friendship on that basis. Higher ups and prison psychiatrists knew but, contrary to sound prison practice, permitted the friendship in the thinking that it would help cheer Goring up and make him more accepting of his fate.
Ned Putzell's story should be rejected. In retirement in Naples, Florida, Putzell's developed a peculiar fascination with and affection for the Nazis. At first, he had a room in his house for displays of his personal collection of Nazi memorabilia, with the room locked and shown only to trusted visitors as he made "the Nazis were not wrong about everything" kind of comments and slammed the Jews and Israel. A person who told me of this thought that Putzell was a crypto-Nazi and was astonished when I told of his record in WW II as a senior US intelligence official.
In time, as Putzell aged and his wife died, the Nazi material became openly displayed in his living room in an assisted living facility, with Putzell eager to show off his collection to even casual visitors. As Putzell's mind detiorated further, his story emerged of helping Goring commit suicide. It seems to be a sort of oddball fanboy fantasy with no basis in fact.
The bottom line is that Goering would have needed a very sturdy rope...the type that they use to tie down an aircraft carrier during a hurricane.So maybe he did the right thing.