Arthur Nebe        

Arthur Nebe was born on 13 November 1894, in Berlin, the son of an elementary school teacher. He volunteered for military service fighting in the 17^th Pioneer Battalion during the Great War, where he was wounded twice by poison-gas.

After the war ended Nebe joined the criminal police and reached the rank of Police Commissioner in 1924. A professional policeman and the author of an authoritative treatise on criminology, Nebe entered the NSDAP on 1 July 1931 and the SS on 2 December 1936.

Even before the Nazis seized power Nebe was their liaison man in the Berlin criminal police, with close links to the SS group led by Kurt Daluege, who in April 1933 recommended him as Chief Executive of the State Police.


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