Karl
Rudolf Werner
(Werner)
Best
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Died
at age 85
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Karl Rudolf Werner Best is born July 10, 1903.
He is a German Nazi, jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer and Nazi Party leader and theoretician from Darmstadt, Hesse. He is the first chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police, and initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany. As a deputy of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich he organizes the World War II SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads that were responsible for mass killings.
Best serves in the German military occupation administration of France (1940 - 1942), and then becomes the civilian administrator of occupied Denmark (1942 - 1945). He is convicted of war crimes in Denmark, and is released in 1951. He escapes further prosecution in West Germany in 1972 due to ill health, and dies June 23, 1989, at the age of 85.
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