"The Nazi-Fascists Who Saved Jews"

[Max Lucas]

"Karl Rudolf Werner Best (10 July 1903 – 23 June 1989) was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt. He was the first chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police, and initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany.

Dr Werner Best was a doctor of law and had an uncanny ability to bend the law in his favour. After the war he convinced the Danish courts to commute his death sentence to a prison sentence.

A key priority for Best, as the Third Reich's plenipotentiary in Denmark, was to maintain the flow of agricultural goods from Denmark to Germany. Not for nothing was Denmark known as "Germany's pantry" and as the "whipped cream front" - by some estimates it supplied up to 15% of Germany's needs.

To ensure this continued, political stability was essential. But in the summer of 1943 the Danish Resistance had become emboldened, and the Danish government had resigned in protest at a new policy requiring convicted saboteurs to be sentenced to death.

Hitler's order to make Denmark "free of Jews" - Judenrein - therefore came at a bad time for Best.

"The summer of 1943 had been a blaze of sabotage, strikes and physical confrontations between Danes and Germans," says Sofie Lene Bak. "Best feared for an uprising and general strikes if the Jews were targeted."

So it seems Best set about organising the round-up of the Jews - while also simultaneously sabotaging it.

When the extent of the failure of the round-up became apparent, Hitler telegrammed Best ordering him to explain himself. He responded that he had done as he had been ordered - he had made Denmark Judenrein.

Credit for saving Denmark's Jews has often been handed to Georg F Duckwitz, a German naval attaché and Best's right-hand man, who leaked the date of the round-up to Hans Hedtoft of the Danish Social Democrat Party. Hedtoft in turn passed the information to the acting chief rabbi, Marcus Melchior, who told his congregation the next morning - the day before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Soldiers charged with rounding up the Jews were ordered to knock on the doors and ring the door bells of Jewish homes, but under no circumstances were they to break them down or smash windows. At least one family simply slept through it all.

And when it became apparent that the primary escape route was across the Oresund, all German patrol boats on the water were ordered into harbour. They remained there for three weeks, when the bulk of the escapees were crossing to Sweden. The official explanation was that the boats needed a paint job. All of them - at the same time.

"The restraint of the Germans in Denmark is unique to the rest of occupied Europe," says Sofie Lene Bak. "Not only in terms of method on the night of the raid but in terms of the limited resources used to hunt for Jews after the raid."

In 1948, Best was sentenced to death by a Danish court, but his sentence was reduced to 12 years on appeal. Best was released in 1951 as part of a Danish amnesty program for Nazi war criminals. In 1958 Best was fined 70,000 marks by a Berlin de-Nazification court for his actions as an SS officer during the war. In March 1969, Best was held in detention and in February 1972 he was charged again, when further war crimes allegations arose, but he was released in August 1972 on grounds that he was medically unfit to stand trial. After that, Best was part of a network that helped former Nazis and spent his time "campaigning for a general amnesty". He died in Mülheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, on 23 June 1989."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45919900

"Giorgio Perlasca (31 January 1910 – 15 August 1992) was an Italian businessman and Fascist who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5,218 Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps in eastern Europe. In 1989, Perlasca was designated by Israel as a Righteous Among the Nations."

https://www.giorgioperlasca.it/

Perlasca, un eroe italiano (2002) Soundtrack: Romanticamente Interiore (Ennio Morricone)

Perlasca, un eroe italiano (2002) Soundtrack: Romanticamente Interiore (Ennio Morricone)

Giorgio Perlasca, un eroe italiano trailer con sottotitoli in inglese

Giorgio Perlasca, un eroe italiano trailer con sottotitoli in inglese

[bedford]

What interest rate does one get for saving jews?
I have a jew worth $50,000 and save him in a safe deposit box for ten years what will the jew be worth in 10 years?

[U. Dunrouse]

Saved from what? From a mass slaughter atrocity propaganda lie devised to force the postwar Jewish seizure of Palestine? From the first manual labor of their lives?