Göring. A Biography

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Andrus asked Pflücker: Pflücker testimony to Board of Inquiry (see last note to
Chapter ).
Kelley: As a result of petty jealousies that arose between Kelley and his supe-
rior officer, Gustave M. Gilbert, Kelley left Nuremberg “under a cloud,”
and published a book based on Gilbert’s consultation notes,  Cells in
Nuremberg. The author has relied on Gilbert’s original notes (in the R. H.
Jackson Papers).
Ley’s suicide: Ley had spoken of HG with profound contempt in his interrog.,
SAIC/, on May , .


Chapter : On Trial
Written declaration: The German text was circulated among the Allied news-
papermen attached to Nuremberg. The author found it in the papers of R.
Selkirk Panton of the Daily Express (National Library of Australia, Can-
berra, Collection , file ).
Jackson: The author has relied on the stenographic notes of the behind-the-
scenes meetings of the Nuremberg prosecutors (Library of Congress, R. H.
Jackson Papers; DJ films  and ), his diary (ibid.), and his  Oral
History interview on the Nuremberg trial (DJ film ); and on the diary
and papers of Judge Francis Biddle, Syracuse University Library, box .
“Old Santa Clauses”: HG interrog. at Nuremberg, Oct. , .
Jack G. Wheelis: See the well-researched investigation by Ben S. Swearingen,
The Mystery of Hermann Göring’s Suicide (New York: ). Swearingen
did not obtain access to HG’s last letters, with their vital clues as to his
mode of suicide. Andrus’s papers show that on at least two occasions
Wheelis had caused minor disciplinary problems.
Jackson would telegraph: Telegram of Jackson to U.S. State Dept., Feb. , 
(NA, RG., R. H. Jackson Papers).
Churchill’s plans to invade Norway: The Germans had captured the files of the
Allied Supreme War Council in France in . Cabinet embarrassment:
PRO file PREM./.
Andrus protest to Tribunal: Letter of Andrus to Commanding General, Head-
quarters, IMT, Jan. ,  (Andrus Papers); and handwritten letter, HG
to Tribunal, Jan. ,  (BDC file), with covering letter from Andrus to
Tribunal, Jan.  (Andrus Papers).
HG isolated over lunch: Andrus’s directives to this effect are in the files of 
Internal Security Detachment (NA, RG., entry , box ). Thus he
informed the prisoners on Feb. , : “You are hereby notified that
neither the Tribunal nor any other authority has required that the defen-
dants be allowed to remain in constant communication with each other.”
Extraordinary scenes at the prosecutors’ secret meeting: The shorthand record i s
in R. H. Jackson’s private papers (Library of Congress).
Hollywood-size fan mail poured in: Referred to in one dispatch by Selkirk
Panton (see note “Not a man to be underrated,” Chapter ).
Allen Dulles: Letter of Jackson to Dulles, Apr. ,  (Library of Congress, R.
H. Jackson Papers).
“Rather die like a lion”: HG on May , , quoted by Bross, op. cit., p. .

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