Most of you know the story of Hermann Goring and the guilty sentence placed on him at his trial. But how many of you know what happened to the body after he took his own life only hours before his scheduled hanging?

Well it is a most fitting one and one that bears repeating.

He was cremated at DACHAU and his ashes were dumped in a trash can.

Well Herr Goring, how did it feel to have your body placed in the same crematoriums as all the Jewish people and countless others that were slaughtered? Your too-good German blood and bones mixing with those you and Hilter deemed unworthy. Nuff said!

I saw that in the magazine yesterday. I say, "humph!" as fat as he was surely they could have gotten dozens of bars of soap out of him.

I wonder if it was true? Surely he had family somewhere.......

Brooke

Oh it's all very true. The other idiots were cremated too and their ashes scattered. Why? Simply to discourage shrines, etc. being raised for any of these men.

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Nuremberg, 1945

Sixty years ago today, the International Military Tribunal convened for the first time. Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis were indicted, although only twenty-one appeared in court. (Gustav Krupp was, after a preliminary healing, excluded from the trial because of his health; Martin Bormann was tried and convicted in absentia, and Robert Ley committed suicide.) Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels, three of the most notorious Nazi leaders, were not included in the indictment. Each committed suicide before the war ended.

Four charges were included in the indictment: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit the three foregoing crimes. The first day of the trial was taken up with the reading of the indictment. On the second day, defendants entered their pleas and the Court ruled on a motion filed by the defense on November 19.

The preliminary motion of the defense argued, inter alia, that certain charges, including the charge of crimes against peace, constituted ex post facto law. The motion was rejected by the Court.

Judgments in the trials were pronounced by the Court on October 1, 1946. Twelve defendants were sentenced to death, three were acquitted, and the remainder were given prison sentences of varying lengths.

Eleven of the twelve sentenced to death were hanged on October 17, 1946. Hermann Goering escaped hanging by committing suicide. The bodies of the twelve were cremated--at Dachau--and, to discourage the establishment of shrines, their ashes were scattered in the Isar River.

Ashes to ashes....Trash to Trash!

Daddy

Oh nicely put!