mas F. Conley, of the U.S. Army’s Intelligence Security Com-
mand, Fort C. Meade, Maryland, provided me with their intelli-
gence dossier on the Reichsmarschall. More general thanks are
due to the Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington;
to Helen Pashin at the Hoover Library in Stanford, California,
for showing me their Göring Collection; to Raymond Teichman
(supervisory archivist) at the Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) Li-
brary, Hyde Park, N.Y.; to Robert J. Smith (chief, Office of
History) at Wright-Patterson Air Base, Dayton, Ohio; to the di-
rector of the Albert F. Simpson Library, Air University, Maxwell
Air Base, Alabama; to John E. Wickman (Director), Dwight D.
Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas; to John Dojka, librarian at
Yale University, for access to the Stütz collection of Göring let-
ters; to Robert W. Fisch, curator of the museum at the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where the Reichsmar-
schall’s baton is housed; to Geoffrey Wexler of the State Histori-
cal Society at Madison, Wisconsin; to James H. Hutson and the
staff of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, for
access to the papers of Generals Carl F. Spaatz and H. H.
Arnold, and to the private papers and diary of Justice Robert H.
Jackson. The librarian of Old Dominion College, Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, provided me with a copy of Lieutenant General Beppo
Schmid’s manuscript.
Over in West Berlin, Dr. Daniel P. Simon, director of the
U.S. Mission’s Berlin Document Center, in addition to granting
access to Nazi party files on Göring and his staff, also permitted
me the first-ever use of the final letters found in Göring’s dead
hand (and allowed me to inspect them again when I decided
that the exact folds in the letters might provide important
clues).
In Ottawa, John Bell, of the Prime Minister’s Archives sec-
tion at the Public Archives of Canada, once more allowed me to