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Extract from a book, on the legality of police actions supporting "the leadership" and the role of the security service (SD) in protecting the state
IMT
Authors
Werner Best (Dr., Ministry of the Interior (security police); RSHA; official in occupied France and Denmark)
Werner Best
German general (1903-1989)
- Born: 1903-07-10 (Darmstadt)
- Died: 1989-06-23 (Mülheim an der Ruhr)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic; West Germany
- Occupation: Q12766297; diplomat; judge; jurist
- Member of political party: Free Democratic Party; Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-02-10; role: affiant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-01-25; role: affiant)
- Significant person: Günther Joël; Viktor Brack (role: colleague)
Date: 1940
Literal Title: "Die Deuusche [sic] Polizei" (The German Police) by Dr. Werner Best, 1940 edition.
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-1852b
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 449
Document Book No: Prosecution AA: Gestapo and SD
Citation: IMT (page 1904)
HLSL Item No.: 451594
Notes:This document was extracted from a longer (8 page) version of PS 1852 (exhibit 449), and entered with the same exhibit number.