Evening star., 1943-05-09

, and perhaps became little Cracked"
over the sufferings he saw But nobody
ever accused DR.. Moeller of being char
liable to sick horses.
Hitlers chief representative in Dem
mark is the German Minister to Copen-
hagen, DR.. Werner Best. He is an avowed
agent of the Gestapo-an "SS brigade
fuhrer." He is, in the words of one
Danish refugee here who knows him, "a
handsome, polished, well-mannered, ele-
gantly dressed fellow who will stop at
nothing to carry out the orders of Hmm
| ler, his master"
Best has been Nazi almost from the
beginning. He has been one of the chief
propagandlSts for the master race"
theory. One of his favorite theories is
that there is nothing in history which
speaks against the extinction of races
provided only that it be complete
At the time of the invasion the Minister
appears to have been frank if not hon.
est, man. The story is that on the day be-
fore the invasion King Christian, alarmed
by reports of Danish agents in Berlin,
asked him for an explanation of troop
movements on the border He was as
sured that there was no intention of en-
tering Denmark. Reproached for this
later, the Minister is said to have re-
piled with complete cynicism: But I
am an honorless man.
He was also too frank on several other
occasions and is believed now to be out
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disgrace. All the time he held the
Copenhagen post his evil star was the
legations press attache," an extreme
ly sinister fellow named MeiSsner. One
OF this mans minor jobs was to spy on
the Minister. AS a journalist he had
little standing.
Perhaps his methods were considered
a little too crude in Berlin. He remains
a member of Bests staff-probably the
second most powerful of Denmarks un-
welcome guests.
The military force in Denmark con-
sists of approximately 100000 Germans
headed by Gen. ven Hannekan, rela-
lively recent appointee. He is. say Danes
here, crude, ill-mannered bully, who
recently replaced Gen Ludke, a calm.
lazy, peace-loving retired officer called
back into active service at the start of
the war
Orders Danish Army Out.
Ludke had gotten along fairly we'll
with the Danes. Henneken, man with
out any active combat service, had been
one of Goering's chief lieutenants in the
military reorganization of German in
dustry. He was accustomed to work
with sharp orders, not soft words. He
expected to govern Denmark as other
occupied countries were governed. One
Of his first moves was to give the 1900
members of the Danish Army still in the
peninsula of Jutland IA days to get out.
One of his first moves was to have ar
| underground shelter seven meters deep
| dug in front of the schoolhouse by Ger
man soldiers who were instructed to give
no information about it.
Shortly after Won Hanneken arrived in
| Copenhagen, these refugees say, his
| policy of ruling Denmark by force got
| bad setback from Best. The latter ex-
planned that Germany depended greatly
on the foodstuffs to be had from the
kingdom and that farmers could not be
forced. The two had violent setto and
both appealed to Berlin. The oily
tongued little minister got the best Of
! the argument. Since then Best and Won
Hanneken hardly have been on speaking
terms and each is supposed to have his
| spies operating against the other.