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Robert Henry Best (April 16, 1896 – December 16, 1952) was an American foreign correspondent who covered events in Europe for American media outlets during the interwar period. He later became a supporter of the Nazis and a well known broadcaster of Nazi propaganda during World War II.
One of these was Robert Henry Best, a South Carolinian who began reporting from Europe in the 1920s. In his transmissions from Berlin, Best attacked Communism, Jewish people, and the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also denied that he was working for Nazi Germany.
In 18 years of reporting for the United Press in Vienna, Robert Henry Best developed an obsessive hatred of Jews, the New Deal and Communism. He lived with an aging, dope-addicted...
Abstract. South Carolina native Robert Henry Best, son of a Protestant minister, obtained journalism credentials at the Columbia University School of Journalism and ended up in Vienna, as did others such as William L. Shirer and Dorothy Thompson in the years between the wars.
By shortwave, his broadcasts reached perhaps 150,000 Americans during twice-an-evening broadcasts. Best coined such phrases as “Jewnited States,” and even the Nazis found him extreme. Convicted in the United States of treason after the war, Best died in prison in 1952.
Robert Henry Best served in the U.S. Army in World War I, later studied journalism at Columbia University. In 1923 he won a $1,500 Pulitzer traveling scholarship and went to Europe, never to...
Robert Henry Best (16 de abril de 1896 - 16 de diciembre de 1952) fue un corresponsal extranjero estadounidense que cubrió eventos en Europa para los medios de comunicación estadounidenses durante el período de entreguerras.
