Göring Was 265 Pounds When Captured. He Lost 75 in Prison. Then He Beat the Hangman.

He was Hitler's designated successor — the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany. He built the Gestapo, commanded the Luftwaffe, and signed the authorization that set the Holocaust in motion. He looted an entire continent's art and housed it in a palace built in a dead woman's name. He stood trial at Nuremberg — and beat the hangman anyway.This is the complete story of Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Reichsmarschall of the Third Reich. From a medieval castle in Bavaria to the highest offices of Nazi Germany. From the cockpit of a WWI fighter pilot — wounded in the Beer Hall Putsch and addicted to morphine ever after — to the dock at the Nuremberg Trials. From the Pour le Mérite to a cyanide capsule in a prison cell, two hours before his scheduled execution.When Göring was captured by American forces in May 1945, he weighed 265 pounds and was taking 40 pills of paracodeine a day. Eighteen months later — thinner by 75 pounds, clean of morphine, and condemned to hang — he took his own life in a way that stunned the Allied prosecution. How he obtained the cyanide capsule inside a maximum-security American prison remains contested to this day.If you watched our documentary on the Nuremberg psychiatrist Douglas Kelley — this is the man Kelley spent eleven months trying to understand. This is what he found.CHAPTERS:00:00 — Opening: Nuremberg, October 194604:04 — The Boy in the Castle (1893–1914)07:14 — The Ace (1914–1918)10:05 — The Exile (1918–1927)13:17 — The Putsch and the Morphine (1923)16:24 — The Rise (1928–1933)22:43 — The Night of the Long Knives (1934)28:24 — The Reichsmarschall (1935–1940)29:34 — The Battle of Britain (1940)34:01 — The Authorization (July 1941)35:57 — Stalingrad (1942–1943)40:47 — The Long Decline (1943–1945)46:14 — Camp Ashcan → Nuremberg → The Last NightIf this is the kind of history you're looking for — SUBSCRIBE. No ads. No sponsors. Just research and a lot of coffee (and beer):https://buymeacoffee.com/theww2grognard—For the full cinematic experience — with historical photographs and archival footage — watch this episode on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TheWW2Grognard—RESEARCH SOURCESPrimary: Hermann Göring — testimony before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, March 1946.International Military Tribunal — Trial of the Major War Criminals, Vol. IX (Nuremberg, 1947). https://amzn.to/3QwC4Y0Douglas M. Kelley — 22 Cells in Nuremberg (Greenberg, 1947). https://amzn.to/3OjTA16Gustave M. Gilbert — Nuremberg Diary (Farrar, Straus, 1947). https://amzn.to/4d3zu4sLeon Goldensohn — The Nuremberg Interviews, ed. Robert Gellately (Knopf, 2004). U.S. https://amzn.to/4mT9i00Holocaust Memorial Museum — Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg documentation (encyclopedia.ushmm.org).Secondary:Richard J. Evans — The Third Reich in Power (Penguin, 2005) | https://amzn.to/4mT9mNiRichard J. Evans — The Third Reich at War (Penguin, 2008) https://amzn.to/3QuRiN9Ian Kershaw — Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris (Norton, 1998) https://amzn.to/48jsqOwIan Kershaw — Hitler: 1936–1945 Nemesis (Norton, 2000) https://amzn.to/4epyaKDRoger Manvell & Heinrich Fraenkel — Göring (Simon & Schuster, 1962) https://amzn.to/3OZ6sd5Jack El-Hai — The Nazi and the Psychiatrist (PublicAffairs, 2013) → [Amazon link] https://amzn.to/3QrNM6gWikipedia — Hermann Göring, Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Night of the Long Knives, Carinhall, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg History.com | USHMM Encyclopedia | Britannica | National WWII Museum | nuremberg.media.Note: This video covers historical events of the period 1893–1946 and does not address current events.MUSICAlmost in F — Tranquillity by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500002Artist: http://incompetech.com/No.4 Piano Journey by Esther AbramiFree to use — YouTube Audio LibraryArtist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOFrldzxeKGG8fTpN5_d75QPRODUCTION TRANSPARENCYScript & Research: Human-authored | Narration: AI-generated (ElevenLabs) | Images: Bundesarchiv, U.S. National Archives, Wikimedia Commons — public domain#HermannGöring #NurembergTrials #WWII #WW2Documentary #NaziGermany #WW2History #Nuremberg #TheWW2Grognard #WorldWarII #Luftwaffe #BattleOfBritain #Stalingrad #ThirdReich #HitlerInnerCircle #WW2