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ナチス高官の服毒自殺、元米陸軍兵が毒物提供の名乗り
【ロサンゼルス支局】独ナチス政権下で「帝国元帥」だったヘルマン・ゲーリングが連合軍による死刑執行の直前に服毒自殺した事件で、毒物を与えたのは自分だと78歳の元米陸軍兵が名乗り出た。
米ロサンゼルス・タイムズ紙が7日付で報じた。
厳重に監視されていたはずのゲーリングの毒物入手方法は、これまで歴史の謎とされてきた。
証言によると、ニュルンベルク裁判の衛兵を務めていたこの元兵士は、街角で出合ったドイツ人女性から2人の男に引き合わされ、「体が弱っているゲーリングの常備薬だ」とカプセルを忍ばせた万年筆を受け取り、これをゲーリングに渡したという。
その約2週間後の1946年10月15日、ゲーリングは絞首台に送られる約2時間前に服毒自殺した。米軍が調査したが、入手方法は分からず、へそのすき間や金歯の下などに隠していたのではないかとの説も流れた。
元兵士は懲罰を恐れてこれまで黙ってきたが、すでに時効となっていることを知り告白したという。
ロサンゼルスに本部を置くユダヤ系人権団体「サイモン・ウィーゼンタール・センター」は「証明する方法はない。真相は本人にしかわからない」としている。
(2005/2/9/20:16 読売新聞 無断転載禁止)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4247069.stm
Last Updated: Tuesday, 8 February, 2005, 17:10 GMT
Guard 'gave Goering suicide pill'
*A former US guard says he unwittingly gave Nazi leader Hermann Goering the poison he used to commit suicide.
Goering killed himself only hours before he was scheduled to be hanged in 1946, following his conviction for war crimes at the Nuremberg trials.
Now Herbert Lee Stivers, who was a 19-year-old guard at the trials, says he agreed to carry "medicine" to the imprisoned Nazi air force chief.
He said he was talked into it after meeting a flirtatious local girl.
He said he met the girl in the street, and she appeared impressed by his role as a guard at the trials.
She introduced him to two men, who asked him to take messages to Goering hidden inside a fountain pen.
The third time, he said, the pen hid a pill.
"[One of the men] said it was medication and that if it worked and Goering felt better they'd send him some more," Mr Stivers told the Los Angeles Times.
He never saw the girl again after delivering the capsule.
"I guess she used me," he said.
"I would have never knowingly taken something in that I thought was going to be used to help someone cheat the gallows."
*Troubled conscience
Historians have long questioned how Goering managed to evade his execution, scheduled for 15 October 1946.
The Luftwaffe head left a suicide note claiming he had had the pill during his entire 11-month war crimes trial.
An army investigation decided he must have hidden the pill on his body and in his cell.
There is no proof of Mr Stivers' story, but several historians are tempted to believe him.
Aaron Breitbart, a researcher at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said the story "is crazy enough to be true", adding: "Nobody really knows who did it except the person who did it."
Mr Stivers, 78, a retired sheet metal worker from southern California, said he was finally convinced to go public by his daughter, to ease his conscience after nearly 60 years.
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