Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering commits suicide hours before scheduled execution 70 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 15 1946)


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(Tuesday, October 15, 1946, 10:45 p.m. CET; during the Nuremberg trials) — Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering, the second-most powerful man in Hitler’s Germany, committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule tonight in his prison cell in Nuremberg, just hours before he and ten other former high Nazi officials were to have been executed.