Hermann Wilhelm Goering15 October 1946
Goering kills himself with cyanide on the night before the scheduled executions, avoiding the death sentence by hanging.
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Goering kills himself with cyanide on the night before the scheduled executions, avoiding the death sentence by hanging.
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