but Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler's No. 2 man, cheated the noose by swallowing poison in his cell before the death sentence was read to him. Col B. C. Andrus, security chief for the prison ...

Göring's involvement in the Holocaust and other Nazi-sponsored atrocities led to him being sentenced to death at the Nuremberg ... section under the heading “Hermann Göring, Hitler's Successor ...