Folke Bernadotte

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Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (Swedish: [fɔ̂l.kɛ̂ bæɳaˈdɔtː]; 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 Ghetto. 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 Zionist paramilitary 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.

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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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