UK TV Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand

[STEED]

OK folks of the U.K and anyone who can pick up Channel 4 something to watch for a change.

Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand Channel 4 (http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/tvpdb?d=tvs&id=166005000&lineup=uk&channels=europe_ch4&.intl=uk) Thu Aug 24 9:00 PM
1 (120 min., Subtitledin English, 2006, United Kingdom, Education/Science/Factual Topics)



Feature-length drama documentary commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial - the first international war crimes trial - organised by the Allies to deal with the most senior-ranking Nazis captured at the end of the Second World War. At the core of the film is a powerful drama set in the confines of the Nuremberg jail, based entirely on the records and testimonies of those who were there.
Unfolding in the claustrophobic jail, the story reveals what the world's press and their cameras gathered in the court couldn't reach: the hidden duel between Hitler's surviving henchman Hermann Goering (the most senior Nazi captured alive) and his jailer, US Colonel Burton Andrus. At the climax of this story lies an exploration of the events that led up to the mysterious suicide of Goering, whose 11th-hour escape from the hangman denied the world the justice it sought. The action moves from this behind-the-scenes drama into the courtroom itself, where historic archive footage documents milestone moments in the trial. Interview recollections of those who witnessed the trial, worked for the prosecution or worked as guards in the jail support the story. Finally, historic archive charts the biographical back-story of Goering's rise to power, fall from grace and final bid for immortality. Director:Peter Nicholson. Production:3BM Television

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Did they ever found the deserter who gave him the poison?

[STEED]

Did they ever found the deserter who gave him the poison?

No, he came forward last year to tell his story.

In 2005, former Army private Herbert Lee Stivers claimed he gave Göring "medicine" hidden inside a gift fountain pen from a German woman the private had met and flirted with. Stivers served in the U.S. 1st Infantry Division's 26th Regiment, who formed the honour guard for the Nuremberg Trials. Stivers claims to have been unaware of what the "medicine" he delivered actually was until after Göring's death.

[STEED]

One day to go, if anyone wants to see this in the UK.

[STEED]

It's on tonight and looking at the TV line up it's the only programme on tonight worth watching. :yep:

[Konovalov]

Thanks for the heads up. It looks interesting. I'll try to convince my wife to watch this with me rather than viewing a Bollywood soapie on Star Plus channel with terrible acting and singing in Hindi or a Pakistan soapie with it's 3rd grade school acting and overly dramatic and dated 80's music on channel Geo. :damn:

[STEED]

Well worth watching, very interesting. Anyone else watched it. :up:

[Konovalov]

Well worth watching, very interesting. Anyone else watched it. :up:

I only managed to watch bits and pieces in between add breaks of another program. What I did see was excellent. I knew very litle of the details of the incident involving Goerings assisted suicide.