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THE RISE AND FALL OF HERMANN GOERING (309 pp.)-Willi Frischauer-Houghfon Mifflin ($3.50).
Dachau concentration camp's "last remaining incinerator of original Nazi design" received an unexpected guest one day in 1946: the corpse of Hermann Goering, dead by his own hand (cyanide) as the gallows waited for him. After the incinerator had done its work, the ashes were shoveled into a...
Berliners still remember the comic relief that fat Hermann Goering injected into the tragic drama of their lives. They remember him standing on icy street corners, bundled snugly up to the ears in a fur coat, shaking a collection box (for "Winter Help") and crying cheerily: "A few pennies, please...
Item: Richard Strauss felt superior to the Nazis but not to their money, spent his time writing music for Goering's wedding and Hirohito's birthday. He was, when I visited him last summer, entrenched in Lausanne's most chic hotel, a stooped, white-haired man who was rather ashamed...
"Goering was not hanged. He committed suicide at 6:45 p.m. (4.45 E.S.T.) last night by taking cyanide of potassium."