How I helped Goering Escape The Hangman
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Hermann Göring ~ Death (1946)
Report 2005: THE mystery of how Hitler'sdeputy Hermann Goering committed suicide hours before hewas due to hang may finally havebeen solved.
A former Nuremberg guard says hesupplied the Nazi war criminal withthe cyanide pill he took to kill himself.
The claim by 78-year-old Herbert LeeStivers has the 'ring of truth', historianssaid yesterday. For 60 years, how Goeringmanaged to poison himself and cheat thegallows despite 24-hour surveillance hasbaffled experts.
One theory was that the general whocommanded Hitler's air force had the poison throughout his 11-month war crimestrial in Nuremberg - hidden under a golddental crown or concealed in his navel orback passage.
Others have always believed the poisonwas sneaked to him shortly before hisplanned execution.
The list of possible culprits included aU.S. officer Goering bribed with a watch,the German doctor who regularlychecked on him, an SS officer who gave it to him in a bar of soap and even Goering's wife, Emmy, who passed it in a kiss on their last meeting. None of them did it, according to former U.S. soldier Stivers, who broke his silence on onday February 7th, 2005, in an interview in the Los Angeles Times.
The retired sheet-metal worker from Hesperia, 80 miles from Los Angeles, said: 'I gave it to him.'
He said he had kept the secret because he feared being charged. Now, at the urging of his daughter - and having being assured that any charges were timebarred - he had decided to go public.
A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on the claim, but military records do show Mr Stivers was a guard at the Nuremberg trials, said the newspaper.
Professor Cornelius Shnauber, a director of the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies at the University of Southern California, said the Stivers story was 'more believable than the poison being in the dental crown'.
The professor said he believes someone smuggled in the poison. 'It could have been this soldier,' he said.
Mr Stivers told the Times he agreed to take 'medicine' to chat withGoering to impress a local girl he had met on the street.
He was a member of the trial's honour guard who escorted the 22 Nazi defendants in and out of the courtroom. The guards were free tochat with the prisoners.
Mr Stivers said that one dayhe was approached by apretty, dark-haired girl calledMona.
When he told her he was aguard and got to see all theprisoners every day, she said:'You don't look like a guard.'He said: 'I can prove it.'
He showed her an autographhe had from another defendant. He gave her that autograph, and the next day Goering's. She then took Mr Stivers to meet twofriends at a house. The friends, who called themselves Erich and Mathias, told Mr Stivers that Goering was 'a very sick man' and wasn't getting the right medicine.
Mr Stivers said he twice took notes hidden in a fountain pen to Goering. The third time, Erich put a capsule in the pen.
'He said it was medication, and that if it worked and Goering felt better, they'd send him some more,' Mr Stivers said.
After delivering the 'medicine' to Goering, Mr Stivers said, he returned the pen to Mona.
He told the Times he never saw her again. 'I guess she used me.'
Mr Stivers said he didn't think Goering was contemplating suicide when he took in the pen.
'He was never in abad frame of mind. He didn't seem suicidal. I would have never knowinglytaken something in thatI thought was going to beused to help someone cheatthe gallows.'
Two weeks later - on October 15, 1946 - Goering killedhimself. He left a note claiming he'd had the cyanide allalong.
Mr Stivers and the otherguards were grilled by Armyinvestigators but asked only ifthey saw anything suspicious.
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