Goering (63 page)
Authors: Roger Manvell
The principal sources for this chapter, in addition to the official record of the trial itself, are the studies made of Goering by the American prison psychiatrists, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley and Dr. G. M. Gilbert, in their publications 22
Cells in Nuremberg
(by Kelley) and
Hermann Goering, Amiable Psychopath
and
Nuremberg Diary (by
Gilbert)
;
since the entries in
Nuremberg Diary
are dated, we have not given page references for our quotations in the text. The late Lord Birkett's notes on the behavior of Goering in the courtroom were kindly given to us by him shortly before his death. Other personal accounts relating to the period have been obtained from Frau Emmy Goering, Robert Kropp, Papen and Schwerin von Krosigk.
See Kirkpatrick,
The Inner Circle,
pp. 194â96.
Quoted in Kelley, 22
Cells in Nuremberg,
p. 62.
Confirmed by Papen to H.F.
The mystery of how Goering obtained the cyanide capsule with which he poisoned himself remains unsolved. Papen claims (
Memoirs,
p. 551) that on two occasions American guards offered him means of killing himself, one so insistently that Papen had to report him to the officer in charge. Milch claimed that it was not difficult to conceal the capsules that all the principal Nazis, including himself, carried in case of need, and he discounts completely the claims of Bach-Zelewski that it was he who smuggled the capsule to Goering in his cell; Goering had no regard whatsoever for this man. However, Frau Goering believes he did not have the capsule at the time of her last interviews with him a fortnight and then three days before his death. On both occasions she murmured a “Have you gotâ â?,” using a key word they both understood, and he shook his head. She believes that he finally obtained what he wanted from one of the guards. According to Frischauer, the small metal container found beside him was exactly similar to that found wedged in a cavity of Himmler's gums; Himmler had committed suicide in captivity after being stripped and searched. The official explanation given to the press by Major Frederick Teich, the prison operations officer, was that Goering had kept the capsule with him throughout his imprisonment and concealed it inside the rim of his lavatory in the cell; Teich discounted completely the theory that before captivity Goering had undergone a special operation which enabled him to hide the capsule in his flesh near the scar of his war wound, which, after his death, was found to have reopened.
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