Thus far, Hermann Göring was the most intriguing Nazi in custody. With Hitler dead, there was no more high-profile Nazi alive than Göring. A former World War I pilot who had spent time in a sanitarium in a straitjacket before rising to be Hitler’s number two for much of the Third Reich’s life-span, Göring had surrendered on his own volition to American forces, fearing what the Russians would do with him if he were captured by the Red Army. Truman had received Göring’s jewel-covered baton as a gift from some generals. “Can you imagine a fat pig like that strutting around with a forty thousand
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