Quite a few, actually. Himmler, who shot himself (after poisoning his 6 young children) Rommel and a few who's names escape me.
I think Goering was the only suicide while in Allied Custody. Could be wrong though.
That was Goebbels.
Himmler tried to negotiate with the British, but after escaping to the west and while in British custody, he found there would be no negotiations. He then crunched a cyanide capsule he had smuggled in (in his mouth, as I recall, disguised as dental work).
"...Rommel..."
Too bad General Patton didn't get his way...he wanted to bring Rommel and a few other Germans over to his side and roll east to drive the Russians back to Moscow. And the two of them, with their tank corps, could have done it. And that sorry @$$ Montgomery probably would have joined them after moaning that they couldn't possibly do it without him. (Was Patton's death when his jeep went off the road really an accident?...)
Rommel actually was forced to commit suicide because of his peripheral involvement in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler. He wasn't involved in the attempt itself, but he had had conversations with some of the plotters in France, and wouldn't have been in the least sad to see Hitler go. He had given serious consideration to simply "opening the front" in his area (he commanded Army Group B, a large portion of the German forces in northern France) and letting the Allies sweep east.
In Hitler's paranoia after the attempt, Rommel's name came up, and Hitler sent men to Rommel while he was recuperating from wounds suffered when his staff car was strafed by American fighters. They told him, basically, take this vial of poison we brought with us and your family won't get prosecuted. Otherwise, we take you to a kangaroo "People's Court" trial, you'll be found guilty, and your whole family dies with you. So he took the poison to spare his wife and son. The German public was told he died of a "brain aneurysm" due to his injuries, and he was given a state funeral.
It would've been interesting to see if Rommel would have been brought up on war crimes charges post-war, had he lived. Personally, I doubt it. He was very much a professional soldier and there was never any documentation of atrocities committed under or by his command, in France or in North Africa.
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Maybe Goebbels, the guy from Berlin. He would have been Reichsfuerer if Hitler hadn't come along. Himmler was assasinated by partisans.
Wasn't it Goebbels who killed his kids?
Irwin Rommel wasn't among Hilter's "Merry Men".
Rommel poisoned himself after he was implicated in an attempt to assassinate Hitler.