HT This Day: October 16, 1946 — Goering cheats the gallows

“Hermann Wilhelm Goering took his life at 10-45 p.m. (local time) on October 15, 1946. The Minister President of Bavaria, Dr Wilhelm Hoogner, and the Chief Prosecutor of Nuremberg, Dr Friedrich Leisner, attended in their official capacities as witnesses for the German people and viewed the corpse of Hermann Goering.”