Göring “exploded” when he learned that Mildred wasn’t given a death sentence. The word imprisonment drove him into an apoplectic fit, a court officer recalled in a postwar interrogation. He screamed that he “had been commissioned by the Führer” to “cauterize this abscess,” and swore that Hitler would overturn her sentence. The next day, Hitler swiftly rejected Mildred’s verdict and ordered her execution.
