WWI hero, addict and discredited Nazi leader Hermann Göring dies by suicide in prison after being found guilty during the Nuremberg Trials, convicted and sentenced to be hanged. He died by suicide before he could be executed by swallowing a cyanide tablet he had hidden from his guards. Hitler had designated Göring as his successor in 1939. More
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