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Tag: Count Folke Bernadotte

Excerpted // Rescue or Death?

“The prisoners could be forgiven for looking with fear upon the buses that arrived at the concentration camps in the … More

Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, The Holocaust, The White Buses, UNRRA, World War II

When Sweden Rescued 31,000 Non-Swedes from Nazi Germany

In spring 1945, Sweden did something incredible. It voluntarily sent an expedition into Nazi Germany to rescue prisoners from concentration camps and bring them to Sweden. Not a single Swede was among the 31,000 individuals they rescued. This is the story of the White Buses.

Concentration Camps, Count Folke Bernadotte, Heinrich Himmler, Sweden, The Holocaust, The Swedish Red Cross, The White Buses, UNRRA, World War II

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