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February 7, 2005
Anything is Possible
This is an interesting, if not bizarre possible twist on history:
Former US soldier says he delivered Goering's poison pillStivers said he agreed to take "medicine" to a supposedly ailing Goering to impress a flirtatious local girl who approached him one day on the street.
In their first conversation she asked to keep the autograph of one of the prisoners which he showed her to prove he was one of their guards.
Another day, she introduced him to "a friend" who convinced him to take notes to Goering hidden inside a fountain pen on two occasions.
The third time, the man put a capsule in the pen.
"He said it was medication and that if it worked and Goering felt better, they'd send him some more," Stivers told the Times.
He returned the pen to the young woman after delivering the capsule, and never saw her again.
"I guess she used me," Stivers said.
"I would have never knowingly taken something in that I thought was going to be used to help someone cheat the gallows," he said.
Two weeks after the delivery, on October 15, 1946, Goering committed suicide and left a note bragging that he'd had a cyanide pill during his entire 11-month war crimes trial.
Read about it here.
Posted by Daffodil at February 7, 2005 4:02 PM
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I've often wondered what the issue was with this event in history. He was convicted and he's dead, does the method of death really matter in the long run to anyone? I mean other than speaking to the utter lack of training and security provided by the America MP's at the time. I'm glad he cleared things up so I don't have to hear speculation about it on the History Channel anymore. Personally I've always been more worried about the ones that we brought to America to work for the CIA. Those are the more troubling areas of concern when it comes to fall of Germany in World War II.
Posted by: ManDrake at February 7, 2005 4:45 PM