The mystery of how Hermann Goering committed suicide might be solved. Herbert Lee Stivers, a former U.S. Army soldier, said he gave a capsule to Goering while he was guarding the former Nazi official in Nuremberg on Oct. 15, 1946, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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