Goring (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: War Leader Book No. 8)

160 pp. Hermann Göring, Göring also spelled Goering, (born January 12, 1893, Rosenheim, Germany—died October 15, 1946, Nürnberg), a leader of the Nazi Party and one of the primary architects of the Nazi police state in Germany. He was condemned to hang as a war criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg in 1946 but took poison instead and died the night his execution was ordered.