Former US guard provided cyanide for Goering’s suicide

A FORMER guard at the Nuremberg trials after the Second World War has come forward nearly 60 years later to claim he provided the cyanide poison that Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering used to commit suicide the night before his scheduled execution.

Herbert Lee Stivers, now 78, was a 19-year-old Army private when he took notes and a capsule hidden inside a fountain pen to Goering at the request of two men who said the notorious Nazi general was “a very sick man” who needed medicine, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.

Goering killed himself two weeks later.