THE RISE AND FALL OF HERMANN GOERING (309 pp.)Willi FrischauerHoughfon Mifflin ($3.50).
Dachau concentration camp's "last remaining incinerator of original Nazi design" received an unexpected guest one day in 1946: the corpse of Hermann Goering, dead by his own hand (cyanide) as the gallows waited for him. After the incinerator had done its work, the ashes were shoveled into a can and dumped on a trash heap. No epitaph was written, but one was deserved: "He Was the Life & Soul of the Party."
Berliners still remember the comic relief that fat Hermann Goering...
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