Chapter : Release
Fifteen days after sentencing: Andrus, testimony to Board of Inquiry (see final
note to Chapter ).
HG wrote two letters, both siezed: Reported by Stahmer to the British authori-
ties in (PRO file WO./).
“Last letter”: Copies of HG’s “last letter to Mr. Churchill” are in BA-MA,
MSg./; Julius Schaub Papers (IfZ, SI); Salmuth Papers (ibid.); BA-MA,
Keitel Papers; the papers of Gen. Ulrich Kessler, etc.
Stahmer formally petitioned: Stahmer, petition dated Oct. , (NA, OM-
GUS, RG., box ; and papers of Judge Francis Biddle, Syracuse Univer-
sity, box ).
Farewell visit from Emmy: Telegram from Selkirk Panton to Daily Express, :
.., Oct. , ; Milch diary, Dec. , .
Pflücker: Pflücker testimony to Board of Inquiry.
British Labour Cabinet: Telegrams in PRO file PREM./. Minutes of the
Allied Control Council in Berlin, Oct. (ibid.) and Oct. , (NA,
RG., box ).
Three taunting letters: The three letters were generously made available for the
first time to the author by Dr. Daniel P. Simon, director of the Berlin
Document Center. On Oct. , , The New York Times reported that the
Allied Control Council had ruled that the three letters left behind by HG
would never be published.
“Dr. Gilbert told me.. .”: Andrus would write later to prison surgeon Dr.
William H. Dunn, “I have every reason to believe that Gilbert notified the
condemned men... as soon as he learned of it through the newspapers
and several days before the official notice arrived for me to publish to
them. This, of course, gave Göring a good deal longer to make his plans”
(Andrus Papers). Gilbert’s last formal report to Jackson is dated Oct. ,
, and states: “The writer’s observations terminated on October
” (Library of Congress, R. H. Jackson Papers).
Lieutenant Roska: Roska testimony to the Board of Inquiry.
“I refused him the Lord’s Supper”: Gerecke testimony to the Board of Inquiry.
The book, Mit den Zugvögeln nach Afrika, was still in the Nuremberg
prison library in (see note “HG isolated over lunch,” Chapter ).
D-Day for HG: The final scene is based on the precise testimonies rendered to
the Board of Inquiry by Roska, Gerecke, McLinden, Johnson, Pflücker,
Starnes, and the American corporal Gregory Tymchshyn. The fatal cya-
nide capsule is today () the property of a New York urologist.