Published 2002.This function was less important than the one Best had had in the RSHA. Werner Best was born in Darmstadt on 10 July 1903, his parents moved to Dortmund in 1912 and then to Mainz, where Werner Best completed his education.

Werner Best was a Senior SS and Security Police Leader who became Reich Commissioner for occupied Denmark. Published 2002. Werner Best was a Senior SS and Security Police Leader who became Reich Commissioner for occupied Denmark.Werner Best was born in Darmstadt on 10 July 1903, his parents moved to Dortmund in 1912 and then to Mainz, where Werner Best completed his education.

Pre-warned the majority of Danish Jews were able, with help, to escape to Sweden and safety.Werner Best was originally sentenced to death by a Danish court in 1948 following his extradition, but his sentence was commuted to five years and he was granted a clemency release in August 1951. Page 41. Karl Rudolf Werner Best was your average run-of-the-mill Nazi, until he wasn’t. Best served as civilian administrator of France and Denmark while Nazi Germany occupied those countries during World War II. In March 1969 he was held in detention whilst new investigations concerning his responsibility for mass murders.He was finally charged in February 1972 but released in the August of the same year on medical grounds though the accusations were not withdrawn.Werner Best was one of the most illustrious figures of the Third Reich, the author of a famous book on the police, Werner Best’s role remained ambiguous, at least in relation to his period in control of Denmark. Each of our products is THC-FREE, pharmacist-formulated, compliant with existing regulations and produced in an FDA-registered facility. Published 2002. During these years he was strongly influenced by the German youth movement with its return to nature, its Germanic myths and He was twice imprisoned between the end of 1923 and the spring of 1924 by the French authorities during the nationalist struggle in the Ruhr region.

He studied law and in 1927 obtained his doctorate degree at Heidelberg. Werner Best advanced rapidly in the next six years, becoming the deputy of Heydrich and Himmler.Werner Best was also chief legal advisor to the Gestapo, as well as holding the position of Chief of the Bureau of the Secret State Police at the Reich Ministry of the Interior.Werner Best was ambitious, a cool amoral technician of power, used his academic and legal skills to justify the totalitarian practice of the Nazi regime, “which corresponds to the ideological principle of the organically indivisible national community.”As a leading constitutional theoretician and Nazi jurist in the Third Reich, Best did a great deal to give respectability and legitimacy to the political police and the concentration camps. As long as the Gestapo was carrying out the will of the leadership, it was in his view, “acting legally.”After leaving the RSHA, Best served for the next two years as Chief of the Civil Administration in occupied France, involved in fighting the French Resistance and in the deportation of Jews, to the death camps in Poland.The climax of his career came in Denmark, where he was Reich Plenipotentiary from November 1942 to 1945. in spite of his record as a “desk murderer,” there is evidence that in Denmark Best sought to sabotage Himmler’s orders concerning the implementation of the “Final Solution.”Only 477 out of more than 7,000 Danish Jews were finally rounded up by the Nazis who were forbidden by Best to break into Jewish apartments.

Best was unenthusiastic about taking punitive measures against Jews until after the fall of the Danish government. A combination of personal ambition, opportunist careerism and ideological inclinations drove him to the apex of the Nazi system, a system of terror, he helped to function smoothly Yet at the end of his career in National Socialist it would appear that he belatedly began to revert to that respect for law which he had done so much to destroy from within, in his earlier career.Who’s Who in Nazi Germany by Robert S Wistrich published by Routledge, London and New York 1995Copyright 2007  Chris Webb & Carmelo Lisciotto  H.E.A.R.T Werner Best also appeared at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial as a witness.He returned to West Germany, working for a time in a solicitor’s office and then as a lawyer for Stinnes Co, one of the largest German trading concerns.In 1958 he was fined 70,000 marks by a Berlin de-Nazification court for his past activities as a top SS officer. Werner Best (10 July 1903 – 23 June 1989) was a German Nazi, jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer and Nazi Party leader from Darmstadt, Hesse. After the Great War – his father, a senior postmaster, had fallen in France at the outset of the war in 1914 – Best founded the first local group of the German National Youth League and became active in the Mainz group of the German National People’s Party, all before he was twenty.From 1921 to 1925 he studied law at Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Giessen and Heidleberg, where he received his doctorate in 1927. Page 367.