17 APRIL 1993, Page 20

Guilty as hell

Sir: Has Richard Lamb (Books, 10 April) fallen for Goring's supposed charm and humour in writing that 'it is questionable whether he ought to have been condemned to death'?

At Nuremburg Goring admitted to saying to Heydrich in 1938, 'I wish you had killed two hundred Jews instead of destroying so many valuables.' He ordered the enforced starvation of workers in the Russian indus- trial areas as early as May 1941. And that's just for starters. Shirer's last words in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich are this earth on which he [Goring] had made such a murderous impact'.

Of course he deserved the death sen- tence.

Antony Bird

Strettington House, Strettington, Chichester, West Sussex