Folke Bernadotte was the Swedish diplomat who negotiated the release of thousands of prisoners from Nazi concentration camps before being appointed UN mediator in the 1947 to 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Through 2015 the opening said he was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the militant Zionist group Lehi. Today the opening calls Lehi a paramilitary Zionist group instead, and militant does not appear there though it survives five times elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns Lehi was a paramilitary organization, and not that Wikipedia once called the group that assassinated a UN mediator militant.
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Folke Bernadotte , Count of Wisborg ; in Swedish : Greve af Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II , including 423 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945.1 In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler , though the offer was ultimately rejected. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1947-1948. Also published in David Cesarani and Paul A.2Levine (eds.), Bystanders to the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation (Routledge, 2002).3The precise number is nowhere officially recorded. A count of the first 21,000 included 8,000 Danes and Norwegians, 5,911 Poles, 2,629 French, 1,615 stateless Jews and 1,124 Germans. The total number of Jews was 6,500 to 11,000 depending on definitions.4Ilan, Bernadotte in Palestine, 1948 (Macmillan, 1989), p37.5
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Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden Count Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg ( January 2 , 1895 - September 17 , 1948 ), was a Swedish diplomat noted for his negotiation of the release of prisoners from the German concentration camps in World War II .
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Folke Bernadotte , Count of Wisborg ( ; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman. During World War II he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp.They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler , though the offer was ultimately rejected. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the militant Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties.The decision to assassinate him had been taken by Natan Yellin-Mor , Yisrael Eldad , and Yitzhak Shamir , who later became Prime Minister of Israel .Upon his death, Ralph Bunche took up his work at the UN, but was removed from the post around six-months after Bernadotte was assassinated, at the critical period of recognition of the fledgling state.A Jew talks to Himmler Frank Fox. Also published in David Cesarani and Paul A. Levine (eds.), Bystanders to the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation (Routledge, 2002). The precise number is nowhere officially recorded. A count of the first 21,000 included 8,000 Danes and Norwegians, 5,911 Poles, 2,629 French, 1,615 stateless Jews and 1,124 Germans. The total number of Jews was 6,500 to 11,000 depending on definitions.
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Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat . During World War II , he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps , including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp. They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler , though the offer was ultimately rejected. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the paramilitary Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties.Upon his death, Ralph Bunche took up his work at the UN, successfully mediating the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt . A Jew talks to Himmler Frank Fox. Also published in David Cesarani and Paul A. Levine (eds.), Bystanders to the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation (Routledge, 2002). The precise number is nowhere officially recorded. A count of the first 21,000 included 8,000 Danes and Norwegians, 5,911 Poles, 2,629 French, 1,615 stateless Jews and 1,124 Germans. The total number of Jews was 6,500 to 11,000 depending on definitions.
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Swedish diplomat (1895–1948) Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat . In World War II he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps , including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp. They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945 he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler , though the offer was ultimately rejected. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the paramilitary Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties. Upon his death, Ralph Bunche took up his work at the UN, successfully mediating the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt . Also published in David Cesarani and Paul A. Levine (eds.), Bystanders to the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation (Routledge, 2002). The precise number is nowhere officially recorded. A count of the first 21,000 included 8,000 Danes and Norwegians, 5,911 Poles, 2,629 French, 1,615 stateless Jews and 1,124 Germans. The total number of Jews was 6,500 to 11,000 depending on definitions.
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Swedish diplomat (1895–1948) Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat . In World War II , he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt concentration camp . They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945 he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler , though the offer was ultimately rejected by the allies. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the paramilitary Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties. Upon his death, Ralph Bunche took up his work at the UN, successfully mediating the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt . Bystanders to the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation . Bernadotte in Palestine, 1948 .There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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