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    Karl Rudolf Werner Best (10 July 1903 – 23 June 1989) was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from...
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    Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a...
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    Voyage of the Damned (1976). Werner accepted both stage and film roles throughout his career. He won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated...
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    German ambassador, and then in November 1942 to the lawyer and SS general Werner Best. Danish public opinion generally backed the new government, particularly...
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  • Ship of Fools (film) (category Films whose art director won the Best Art Direction Academy Award)
    including for Best Picture, Best Actor for Oskar Werner, Best Actress for Simone Signoret, and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Dunn. It won for Best Art Direction...
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    Werner Herzog (born 1942) is a German filmmaker whose films often feature ambitious or deranged protagonists with impossible dreams. Herzog's works span...
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    training, particularly once Werner Best assumed a leading role for training in April 1936. Employing biological metaphors, Best emphasised a doctrine which...
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  • Werner is a name of German origin. Werner, meaning “the defender” or “the defending warrior”, is common both as a given name and a surname. There are...
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    Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom...
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  • Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, and activist (d. 1989) 1903 – Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist (d. 1989) 1903 – John Wyndham, English...
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  • Short Film; 'My Dinner with Werner' by Alex Billington, February 3, 2022. My Best Fiend at IMDb My Best Fiend at AllMovie My Best Fiend on YouTube A short...
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    Thomas Preston-Werner (born May 27, 1979) is an American billionaire software developer and entrepreneur. He is an active contributor within the free and...
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    Werner Hans Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg; September 5, 1935): 7  is an American lecturer known for founding est (offered from 1971 to 1984).: 14  In...
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    Plenipotentiary (Reichsbevollmächtigter). In 1942, he was replaced by Dr. Werner Best after the Telegram Crisis. Berlin was hoping for a harder line. In 1943...
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    draft-dodger". Nazi jurist and former police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Best opined Müller represented one of the "finest examples" of the limited...
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    Thomas Charles Werner (born April 12, 1950) is an American television producer and businessman. Through his investment in Fenway Sports Group, he is currently...
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    November 1942, the plenipotentiary, Cecil von Renthe-Fink, was replaced by Werner Best and the commander of the German forces in Denmark Erich Lüdke was replaced...
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  • Indian cricketer Tommy Best (1920–2018), Welsh footballer Travis Best (born 1972), American professional basketball player Werner Best (1903–1989), German...
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    in Nazi-occupied Europe: The German Reich plenipotentiary of Denmark, Werner Best, despite instigating the roundup via a telegram he sent to Hitler on...
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  • until he was replaced on 5 November 1942 by SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Best. Best remained in this post until the German surrender in Denmark on 5 May...
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    Reichsjugendführer and leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945 Werner Best, head of Amt I (Administration) of the Gestapo in the Reich Security...
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  • great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because...
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  • The Carsey-Werner Company (previously known as Carsey-Werner Productions and Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions, before that, Carsey Productions and...
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  • Werner Günthör (born 1 June 1961 in Uttwil) is a former Swiss track and field athlete, who was the best shot putter in the history of Swiss track and...
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    Billy Werner is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and DJ. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the post-hardcore bands Saetia and Hot Cross...
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    Germany. Often present at these equestrian outings were Heydrich and Werner Best. Their alleged friendship aside, Canaris was careful around Schellenberg...
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    Workers' Party of Denmark (DNSAP) and German Reichsbevollmächtigter. Dr. Werner Best abandoned plans to create a government under Danish Nazi leader Frits...
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    Office. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS. Werner Best – SS-Obergruppenführer and Reich Plenipotentiary for Nazi-occupied Denmark...
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    car racer, the first person to circumnavigate the world by automobile Werner Best (1903–1989), jurist, police chief and Nazi leader Carl Balhaus (1905–1968)...
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    worked with the Nazi Reich representative Werner Best, who organised the Gestapo. On 11 September 1943 Best told Duckwitz about the intended roundup of...
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