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Audio: National Archives

Also: Werner Best’s (rose-tinted) role in the seizure of Niels Bohr’s Institute.

The former Danish Prime Minister’s letter. Werner Best learned the language in his Reichsbevollmächtigter days.

Four sonnets by Werner Best (not really). He even wanted to sue for libel.

Poems Werner Best wrote in Kastellet.

Herta Isay’s analysis of Werner Best. This can be read for fun, but obviously graphology isn’t seen as reliable now.

They knew each other since 1928 and are co-authors of heroic realism.

Werner Best to the Rheinische Volkspflege. Sentenced to three years for radically opposing the occupation as a student, he was freed after six months.

The letter for which Werner Best had to apologise. The previous part is here.

Werner Best’s letter to his wife, sent while he was testifying in Nuremberg.

Werner Best’s post-war testimony.

Transcribed some of Werner Best’s correspondence. The next part is here.

Caricature of Werner Best and Erik Scavenius, Prime Minister of Denmark.

(1945) Werner Best’s interrogation in Denmark, with him speaking at the end.

Werner Best’s solitary cell in Horsens Statsfængsel and two letter knives he carved while imprisoned.

More caricatures of Werner Best.