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"No, it wasn’t. It says here that it was a small detachment of the 36th Infantry that accepted Goering’s surrender. It also lists the personnel involved. Maybe some of these G.I.s are still around. Les Leggett is one of the few people still alive who was there when Goering arrived at Fischhorn castle."

http://www-tc.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/pdf/308_goering.pdf

2007-10-15 09:05:32 · 1 answers · asked by John H 1 in Politics & Government Military

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I can see no reference to "Fischorn Castle", Göring was not captured in Austria but surrendered on May 9, 1945 in Bavaria.

Page141..... Goring determined at first to set out to find Eisenhower, but he failed to arrive at the rendezvous where Koller had arranged for the American contingent to meet him and take him into custody.

In fact, he had never set out at all. Koller, who was impatient at this delay, virtually ordered Göring to get on the road at once. Caught in traffic jams on the difficult mountain roads, Göring and his entourage only encountered the Americans after considerable delay.

Göring was well received by the American army men, who were only too anxious to be photographed with their famous prisoner. The press gathered that there were champagne receptions and dinner parties taking place while Göring waited for some response to his messages requesting a meeting with Eisenhower. He waited in vain.The only message which came from US army headquarters was an order to stop regarding Göring like a VIP, and treat him like a normal prisoner-of-war.

He was accordingly flown to Augsburg Prison Camp, accompanied by Brauchitsch and also by his man-servant Robert Kropp. At Augsburg he was frequently entertained in the officers mess, and on the 11th of August he was even interviewed by the press. In his interview he claimed that Hitler should have capitulated in 1944.

On the 21st of May, still accompanied only by Kropp, he was flown from Augsburg to Mondorf, the prison center near Luxembourg, which the Americans called Ashcan. Here like the other Nazi leaders, he was to be held for trial . . . . . . . .
Page 145. . . .
This meant that when he finally took his place as a defendant before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in November 1945 . . . . .From the book Göring by Roger Manvell advised by Heinrich Fraenkel.
Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, War Leader Book No 8.

2007-10-15 10:21:14 · answer #1 · answered by conranger1 7 · 0 0

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