Göring. A Biography

 beads of perspiration to Göring’s brow over the Gestapo’s exe- cution of the escaped British aviators. When the Englishman a ...

 and a postcard from Edda. Göring’s letters to Emmy show, however, how the continued restraints and captivity were preying up ...

 fighting for Germany. “Now I am ready to listen to some more treason,” said Göring, relieved, during the recess afterward. S ...

 ate love, I hug and kiss you. Your Hermann.” The “birthday letter” to Edda has survived: My darling, sweet child! My golden ...

 my yearning to be out in the forest and breathe free air again. But even greater is my longing for you and Edda, and greater ...

   Release Allowed to make a closing address to the Nuremberg tribunal, Hermann Göring declared on August , : ...

 Thomas Dodd, one of Jackson’s prosecuting staff, had alleged that Göring had directed Heydrich to kill the Jews and had or- ...

 very pleased. Aunt Thea sent us a packet with a bar of soap, two little candles, some cotton, four buttons, and a wash- clot ...

 Edda recited the ballads that she had learned, and a famous poem containing the lines, “Above all, child, be loyal and true ...

 tographs of the chosen hangman, Master Sergeant John C. Woods, fingering his heavy hempen rope. Woods boasted that it would ...

 days) after sentencing. Now that Göring was formally a con- demned criminal, Andrus intensified security precautions  he wa ...

 God grant that I am allowed to come once more to Nuremberg. Every second that I can gaze into your beloved face is a joy to ...

 be dying in battle. His face cleared; he found that the lump in his throat had gone. “I had no idea you were so brave.” “Lis ...

 nificently. She only faltered toward the end.” He looked at the sedative pills. Once, during the summer, he had casually ask ...

 one lethal cyanide “bullet” was still in his baggage  and that somehow, too, he had obtained a firm promise from a third pa ...

 frequent and very thorough inspections it could not be found. During the court hearings I kept it with me in my high riding ...

 To the Allied Control Council I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German R ...

 My only sweetheart! Upon mature consideration and after profound prayers to my God, I have decided to take my own life and t ...

 That night, October –, the condemned men heard heavy trucks backing into the prison yard less than a hundred feet away  ...

 against last-minute liberation attempts. It was now October , . At : .. Dr. Pflücker slipped into Göring’s cell, ...