NUREMBERG, October 16 -- Ten condemned Nazi ring leaders died on the gallows in the Nuremberg jail year today, but Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler's No. 2 man, cheated the noose by swallowing ...

He was posted to Berlin when the city fell to the Allies in 1945. He happened to arrive at the house where Hermann Goering had lived during the war, as US troops were clearing the contents.