US guard admits carrying poison Goering used to commit suicide 

A former US guard at the Nuremberg trials has come forward to say he believes he provided the poison that Nazi Hermann Goering used to commit suicide hours before his scheduled execution for war crimes. 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. Stivers said that he was introduced to the two men by a pretty woman who had approached him and that he recalled Goering as 'a very pleasant guy' who spoke fairly good English.