Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish royal and diplomat, saved thousands, including Jews, from Nazi concentration camps. He even brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Arab nations in the 1948 war.

Seasoned Swedish officials said Folke Bernadotte wasn't up to the task but others thought the Count's royal blood and confident air would appeal to Himmler. And Bernadotte was only too willing.

Imagine if Folke Bernadotte had been allowed to live. Already during the Second World War, the Swedish count and humanitarian had achieved near-miracles getting tens of thousands of concentration ...

Count Folke Bernadotte, a member of the Swedish royal family, was shot dead by members of the Zionist group Lehi while carrying out his official duties in Jerusalem September 1948.

Folke Bernadotte, centre, talks to Obersturmbahnführer Dr Heinz Rennau and Svendsen, the Norwegian seamen's pastor in Hamburg. Nordiska Museet. Thousands of Norwegians, as well as Danes, were ...

Even in tranquil Rhodes, U.N.'s Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was offered a mediation job. Two local soccer teams, the Dorics and Diagonos, both claimed the Rhodian championship, and ...

But Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN mediator officially charged with bringing peace to a Holy Land at war, and his chief UN observer Colonel Andre Serot, who had only swapped places with Hillman at ...