Word: hermann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nurnberg last week an official announcement explained-partly-how Hermann Goring had managed to cheat the gallows with a phial of potassium cyanide crushed in his mouth two hours before execution time. He had had the poison, the report said, on his person when captured, and had managed to keep it hidden during the whole 17 months of his captivity...
...Hermann Wilhelm Goring, the man who was said to have ordered the Guernica job as practice and demonstration for his Luftwaffe, was ignominiously dead last week, his ashes scattered to the four winds. But the man for whom Goring did the job-Francisco Franco-was very much alive. Moreover, Guernica had been completely rebuilt. In gratitude, the citizens of Guernica last week honored Franco with the "freedom of the borough...
...held neither cheer nor reassurance for the victors. They had permitted new doubts of Nürnberg's justice to arise even out of this last, relatively simple business of hanging ten men by the neck. And they had given Germany a sense of victory when they permitted Hermann Goring to die not as they willed but as he willed...
...Hermann Goring kill himself? How did he manage, in the midst of defeat and humiliation, to become a hero and thus virtually to destroy the positive psychological effect of the Nürnberg trial? From Nürnberg, TIME Correspondent John Stanton cabled...
...phial of potassium cyanide was all Hermann Göring needed to cheat the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). The poison is a favorite with suicides. It is quick: five grains kill in 15 minutes; a heavier dose will do the job in two. Unless given immediately, antidotes are useless...