Remo
08-21-2013, 01:14 PM
Read this article today, an auction for his private cigars:
"Nazi Hermann Goering arrested in May 1945. He was tried for war crimes and sentenced to hang. He took a cyanide pill and died while in jail.
A collection of cigars that were made for Hitler's deputy Hermann Goering are to go up for auction today.
The cigars, expected to fetch between $1261 and $1892, were removed from the cellars of the Nazi officer's home in Brandenburg at the end of the Second World War.
They are held in boxes bearing the words "Sondernfetigung Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering" which means "Specially made for Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering".
Goering's initials, his personal coat of arms and the supplier's name, Gildemann Ltd, Cigar Manufacturers, Berlin-Hamburg, are also printed on the box.
The cigars will go under the hammer at an auction at Golding Young and Mawer auctioneers in Lincoln on behalf of a private vendor who inherited the cigars from a relative.
Auctioneer John Leatt said: "These cigars were specially made for the fuhrer's deputy and, by the vendor's family repute, were removed from the cellars of his home in Brandenburg, near Berlin, after the end of the war. They have been consigned for sale by a local private vendor who inherited them from a relative.
"These unusual items are in untouched condition and are certain to attract collectors of cigars and Third Reich memorabilia."
After the Second World War, Goering was tried at the Nuremburg Trials and found guilty of war crimes.
He was sentenced to death by hanging, but committed suicide by ingesting a cyanide capsule while waiting to be executed."
"Nazi Hermann Goering arrested in May 1945. He was tried for war crimes and sentenced to hang. He took a cyanide pill and died while in jail.
A collection of cigars that were made for Hitler's deputy Hermann Goering are to go up for auction today.
The cigars, expected to fetch between $1261 and $1892, were removed from the cellars of the Nazi officer's home in Brandenburg at the end of the Second World War.
They are held in boxes bearing the words "Sondernfetigung Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering" which means "Specially made for Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering".
Goering's initials, his personal coat of arms and the supplier's name, Gildemann Ltd, Cigar Manufacturers, Berlin-Hamburg, are also printed on the box.
The cigars will go under the hammer at an auction at Golding Young and Mawer auctioneers in Lincoln on behalf of a private vendor who inherited the cigars from a relative.
Auctioneer John Leatt said: "These cigars were specially made for the fuhrer's deputy and, by the vendor's family repute, were removed from the cellars of his home in Brandenburg, near Berlin, after the end of the war. They have been consigned for sale by a local private vendor who inherited them from a relative.
"These unusual items are in untouched condition and are certain to attract collectors of cigars and Third Reich memorabilia."
After the Second World War, Goering was tried at the Nuremburg Trials and found guilty of war crimes.
He was sentenced to death by hanging, but committed suicide by ingesting a cyanide capsule while waiting to be executed."