Göring needed ten minutes to humiliate the American prosecutor at Nuremberg.

Göring needed ten minutes to humiliate the American prosecutor at Nuremberg. It took a Soviet lawyer and a folder of Göring's own papers to finish him.

Here he is with his pet lion cub Caesar, in the days when he thought nobody would ever hold him to account. At the trial he called himself an old hunter.

80 years ago this week, he cheated the gallows with a cyanide capsule.

At the trial, he ran rings around the American prosecutor Robert Jackson. One judge wrote that within ten minutes Göring was "the complete master" of him.

Then Soviet prosecutor Roman Rudenko took over. No speeches, only Göring's own papers.

Göring claimed Germany struck the USSR because it was threatened. Rudenko got him to admit the Luftwaffe's plan for the invasion was ready in November 1940, seven months before the attack.

Then he read out Göring's own speech from August 1942: "I intend to plunder, and to do it thoroughly."

Göring: "I do not deny that I said that."

The old hunter had walked into his own trap.

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