Goering's Suicide

Paul Hooley

Ever since Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe and deputy Führer, crunched a cyanide tablet between his teeth and died the night before his execution for war crimes, speculation about his death has never ended. Just six US and British officers knew what took place on the day Goering received the cyanide capsule that allowed him to escape being hanged by his enemies and, in the eyes of his legions of followers, die a martyr. Of those six Allied officers, four died taking their secrets with them. The revelations of the remaining two only came to light during casual meetings. This work chronicles events that occurred in Nuremberg during the crucial eight-week period in the autumn of 1945 that immediately preceded the start of the International Military Tribunal in which twenty-four leaders of Nazi Germany who had planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes, were tri

Author(s): Hooley, Paul
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 20/05/2026
Pagination: 256 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Frontline Books
Published By: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Book Classification: War crimes
Dimensions: 234 x 156
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ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781036183660