<Li> In February 1937, the Uruguayan short story writer Horacio Quiroga committed suicide by drinking cyanide in a hospital at Buenos Aires . </Li> <Li> In 1937, polymer chemist Wallace Carothers committed suicide by cyanide . </Li> <Li> In the 1943 Operation Gunnerside to destroy the Vemork Heavy Water Plant in World War II (an attempt to stop or slow German atomic bomb progress), the commandos were given cyanide tablets (cyanide enclosed in rubber) kept in the mouth and were instructed to bite into them in case of German capture . The tablets ensured death within three minutes . </Li> <Li> Cyanide, in the form of pure liquid prussic acid (a historical name for hydrogen cyanide), was the favored suicide agent of the Third Reich . It was used to commit suicide by Erwin Rommel (1944), Adolf Hitler's wife, Eva Braun (1945), and by Nazi leaders Heinrich Himmler (1945), possibly Martin Bormann (1945), and Hermann Göring (1946). </Li>

Which part of the brain is affected by hydrogen cyanide