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	Folke Bernadotte
		Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 - September 17, 1948), is noted for his negotiation for the release of prisoners from the German concentration camps in World War II.
		He was the son of Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden[?]) and his wife, née Ebba Henrietta Munck af Fulkila.
		Bernadotte, while vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945, attempted to negotiate an armistice between Germany and the Allies.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Count_Bernadotte.html (379 words)

	Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg217
		Carl Bernadotte Count of Wisborg was born 1890 and died 1977.
		Sophia Bernadotte of Wisborg Countess was born 1892 and died 1936.
		Elsa Bernadotte of Wisborg Countess was born 1893.
	members.tripod.com /drewspen/genealogy/aqwg217.htm (222 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Count Lennart Bernadotte
		Count Lennart Bernadotte, who has died aged 95, was the owner of Mainau, the celebrated botanic garden on an island in Lake Constance, Germany, which every year draws some 1.7 million visitors.
		Bernadotte was a grandson of King Gustaf V of Sweden, and in 1932 he had caused something of a scandal by marrying a commoner, Karin Nissvandt, against his parents' wishes and without royal consent.
		Bernadotte was at the forefront of environmentally-principled gardening, having been one of the earliest proponents of the Green movement in the 1950s.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2005/01/12/db1202.xml (781 words)

	The Assassination of Count Bernadotte
		Bernadotte used his position to negotiate with Heinrich Himmler and save thousands of Jews from concentration camps, although many argue that he could have done more had he been less cautious in negotiations.
		A diplomat fluent in six languages, Bernadotte was appointed mediator of the UN General Assembly on May 20, 1948, and was immediately faced with the volatile situation in the Middle East.
		Bernadotte’s appointment with Joseph was rescheduled for 6:30 p.m.
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/History/folke.html (1091 words)

	Chapter 7: Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem
		Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator on Palestine, brutally assassinated by Jewish assailants of unknown identity, in planned, cold-blooded attack in the New City of Jerusalem at 14.05 G.M.T. today, Friday, 17th September.
		Count Bernadotte was assassinated by the Stern Gang, and it is a well established fact that Yitzhak Shamir (alias Ysernitzsky) was one of the three leaders of the Stern Gang who plotted and executed the assassination.
		Count Bernadotte, a cousin of the Swedish royal family, became a target after he published a plan proposing the intemationalisation of Jerusalem and a re-drawing of the partition borders which would have reduced the area of the Jewish State.
	www.palestine-encyclopedia.com /EPP/Chapter07_1of7.htm (7333 words)

	Who killed Count Folke Bernadotte?
		Count Folke Bernadotte (Count of Wisborg) was a Swedish diplomat, nephew of King Gustavus V, fluent in six languages, who gained international recognition through his work as head of the Swedish Red Cross during World War II.
		During the summer of 1948, Count Folke Bernadotte was sent by the United Nations to Palestine to mediate a truce and try to negotiate a settlement.
		Bernadotte was assassinated by a LEHI team in Jerusalem on September 17, 1948, an act that resulted in the elimination of the LEHI organization by the Jewish leaders of Israel.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_independence_bernadotte.php (666 words)

	Insel Mainau - Next (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Count Lennart Bernadotte, uncle of the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustav, was born on May 8th, 1909, in Stockholm.
		The next generation of the house Bernadotte will continue the tradition in the castle and on the island with new ideas and untiring effort.
		Count Lennart Bernadotte (95) faded away on the early evening of December 21st 2004 in his family circle on Mainau Castle.
	www.mainau.de /htdocs/en/0104_2.htm (252 words)

	Folke Bernadotte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernadotte's grandfather was King Oscar II of Sweden, but Bernadotte's father Oscar Bernadotte left the royal family to pursue a disapproved marriage.
		Folke Bernadotte was a graduate of the military school of Karlberg and a Swedish cavalry officer in the Royal Horse Guards.
		Bernadotte was assassinated on 17 September 1948 by members of the Lehi group, sometimes known as the Stern Gang.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folke_Bernadotte (1708 words)

	In The Shadow of Stern
		Bernadotte's position was summarized in the United Nations General Assembly "Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine" (A. 648) 18 September, 1948, submitted to the Secretary General for Transmission to the Members of the United Nations [the day following his death].
		Count Bernadotte was stationed at the United Nations' Headquarters on the island of Rhodes.
		Bernadotte's itinerary was public information, however, Goldfoot knew that the Count's actual movements in Jerusalem would be changed as a matter of standard procedure.
	www.saveisrael.com /articles/interestshadow.htm (4195 words)

	Israel, the UN and the assassination of Count Bernadotte
		Bernadotte (born 1895) was a Swedish diplomat, the nephew of King Gustavus V, who gained recognition as the head of the Swedish Red Cross during World War II.
		Bernadotte’s transgression, in the view of Jewish zealots, was to include in his June 28 proposal the suggestion that Jerusalem be placed under Jordanian rule, since all the area around the city was designated for the Arab state” (Donald Neff, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs [WRMEA]).
		Bernadotte’s assassination was decided upon and planned by three leaders of the Stern Gang, including Shamir, who would become prime minister of Israel in 1983.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/jul2006/bern-j29.shtml (1860 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Bernadotte's Testament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		...Bernadotte was in search of what he called "a common denominator," but he had, alas, to report that "there was, at least for the time being, no prospect of voluntary agreement between the disputants...
		...Bernadotte declared that he sensed "a more moderate and reasonable atmosphere in all quarters," which he apparently took to confirm his view that a settlement could be achieved by tacit agreement "if the General Assembly should reach firm and equitable decisions on the principal political issues...
		...Count Bernadotte rediscovered an old truth-that a peaceful solution in Palestine 405COMMENTARY would be possible only if a settlement based on equity and a true evaluation of the realities, and regarded as bearable by the majority of the people-though not necessarily by extremists-were imposed by an outside power...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V6I5P18-1.htm (5524 words)

	Al-Awda - PRRC: There Could Have Been Peace
		Count Folke Bernadotte’s report and recommendations were submitted to the UN Security Council on 16 September 1948.
		Bernadotte’s final proposals to end the conflict were published on 20 September.
		Bernadotte noted that, according to “numerous reports from reliable sources”, there was, “large-scale looting, pillage and plundering and destruction of villages without apparent military necessity” in Israeli controlled territory and affirmed Israeli liability, “to restore private property to its Arab owners and to indemnify those owners of property wantonly destroyed”.
	www.al-awda.org /zionists6.html (1517 words)

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		On board was Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, the UN Mediator on Palestine.
		Bernadotte was well known for his humanitarian works while head of the International Red Cross during WWII.
		Serot had earlier asked to sit next to Bernadotte on this leg of their trip so he could personally thank him for rescuing his wife from Dachau concentration camp in 1945.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4720.htm (1083 words)

	Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg218
		Carl married Sophia Bernadotte of Wisborg Countess on 1918.
		Elsa Bernadotte of Wisborg Countess [Parents] was born 1893.
		Folke Bernadotte Count of Wisborg [Parents] was born 1895.
	members.tripod.com /drewspen/genealogy/aqwg218.htm (105 words)

	Outrageous 'Peace' Plan
		Count Bernadotte expected the Israelis to surrender all this from the rights allotted to them by the partition plan of the United Nations.
		Count Bernadotte must be utterly ignorant of the position of Jerusalem in Jewish sentiment.
		Count Bernadotte must also be wholly unconscious of the fact that the Israelis have already gone all the way down the road of compromise and can compromise no further.
	www.varchive.org /obs/480714.htm (747 words)

	Count Folke Bernadotte
		Folke Bernadotte was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 2, 1895.
		On May 20, 1948, the five big powers of the United Nations Security Council agreed in the choice of Count Bernadotte as mediator to seek peace in the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine.
		On September 17, Count Bernadotte and Colonel Andre P. Serot of the French air force were assassinated in Jerusalem by members of the Stern group, an organization of extreme Zionists who had committed numerous atrocities over a period of years against the British and Arabs.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Bernadotte.html (526 words)

	Bernadotte af Wisborg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Four people have been created Count Bernadotte af Wisborg in the Luxembourg nobility, all of whom were members of the Swedish Royal House of Bernadotte, to which the Grand Duke of Luxembourg is closely related.
		Carl Johan Bernadotte (born 1916), formerly Duke of Dalecarlia.
		Josephine married 1823 king Oscar I of Sweden and Norway, and all her heirs male are the Bernadotte, issue of her marriage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernadotte_af_Wisborg (549 words)

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		Count Folke Bernadotte, a descendent of Swedish royalty, was Vice President of the Swedish Red Cross during World War II and diplomat to the United Nations.
		In addition to his humanitarian role during the Holocaust, Count Bernadotte is remembered as the diplomat who conveyed Heinrich Himmler's message of Germany's surrender to Winston Churchill and President Truman, ending the war in the West.
		Count Bernadotte was honored by the Jewish community in 1998 when he was awarded, posthumously, The Dr. Bernard Heller Prize of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
	www.huc.edu /newspubs/pressroom/2006/3/bernadotte.shtml (889 words)

	Count Bernadotte Assassination by Zionist Gangs: 17 September 1948 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Consequently, the assassination on 17 September 1948 of Swedish Count Folk Bernadotte, the United Nations delegate sent to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict, was a natural link in the Zionist series of terrorist operations against peace.
		Count Bernadotte was a member of the royal family in Sweden and the Chairman of the Swedish Red Cross who became a target of extermination as a result of some historical events which began on 29 November 1947, the date on which the UN approved the Division Resolution by majority.
		In particular, he felt the issue of Jewish immigration to Palestine, which he considered an issue against peace because the Arabs feared it, was one that needed to be organized at the international level because it was essential for the Jews to be on good terms with their neighbours.
	www.palestine-info.co.uk /am/publish/article_56.shtml (775 words)

	Count Lennart Bernadotte \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Count Lennart Bernadotte, who gave up his royal Swedish title to marry a commoner but gained an Edenic island that he built into a tourist attraction, has died.
		The count had already studied horticulture and later pursued ecology, filmmaking and photography.
		In 1951 he was given the title Count of Wisborg from the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050116/news_lz1j16count.html (398 words)

	Jewish Terrorists Assassinate U.N. Peacekeeper Count Folke Bernadotte
		Bernadotte had been chosen the United Nations mediator for Palestine four months earlier in what was the U.N.'s first serious attempt at peacemaking in the post-World War II world.
		Bernadotte's transgression, in the view of Jewish zealots, was to include in his June 28 proposal the suggestion that Jerusalem be placed under Jordanian rule, since all the area around the city was designated for the Arab state.
		Unknown publicly was the fact that in his new suggestions Bernadotte dropped his idea of turning over Jerusalem to Jordan and instead reverted to the partition plan's designation of it as an international city.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/0995/9509083.htm (1162 words)

	[13 Oct 1998] SG/SM/6746 : SECRETARY-GENERAL, UNVEILING MEMORIAL TO COUNT FOLKE BERNADOTTE, SAYS HIS EXAMPLE 'TAUGHT US ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since the death of Count Bernadotte, the history of peacemaking has borne out that lesson of loneliness in one man's fate after another -- from Dag Hammarskjöld to Alioune Blondin Beye, from Anwar Sadat to Yitzhak Rabin.
		Count Bernadotte was never to see the fruits of his labour on behalf of the United Nations -- although his successor, Ralph Bunche, worked valiantly to continue his mediation and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
		Yet Count Bernadotte's mission was far from in vain; for his example taught us what a peacemaker is. Someone who treats all human beings as equal, yet who believes that one person can make a difference.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1998/19981013.sgsm6746.html (437 words)

	The Royal House of Sweden, 1939-1945
		Sigvard Bernadotte, formerly Prince of Sweden and Duke of Uppland (1907-).
		Lennart Bernadotte, formerly Prince of Sweden and Duke of Smaland (1909-).
		Oskar, Prince Bernadotte, Count af Wisborg, formerly Prince of Sweden and Duke of Götland (1859-).
	gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu /royalty/houses/sweden.htm (283 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bernadotte,
		Bernadotte, Count Folke BERNADOTTE, COUNT FOLKE [Bernadotte, Count Folke], 1895-1948, Swedish internationalist; nephew of King Gustavus V. He was active in the Swedish Red Cross and became its president in 1946.
		Bernadotte rose from the ranks, served brilliantly under Napoleon Bonaparte in the Italian campaign (1796-97), was French ambassador at Vienna
		Count Lennart Bernadotte, uncle of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, dead
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Bernadotte, (447 words)

	The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 592
		In the closing days of the war, Count Folke Bernadotte, vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross, used his diplomatic skill to rescue Jews from the clutches of the Nazis.
		While Bernadotte negotiated to save Jews from slaughter, Himmler used them as a bargaining chip in his quest to conclude a separate peace with the Western Allies, a ploy the Allies would firmly reject.
		Bernadotte's negotiations with Himmler resulted in freedom for some 14,000 women imprisoned in the Ravensbrück, Germany, concentration camp.
	www.holocaustchronicle.org /StaticPages/592.html (383 words)

	My Family
		Carl Bernadotte (Count of Wisborg) was born in 1890.
		Carl Bernadotte (Count of Wisborg) and Marianne of Leufsta DE GEER (Baroness) were married in 1915.
		Carl Johan Arthur (Count of Wisborg) was born in 1916.
	sneakers.pair.com /roots/b5.htm (1133 words)

	Folke Bernadotte
		Folke Bernadotte, grandson of King Oscar II of Sweden, was born in Stockholm on 2nd January, 1895.
		Bernadotte became head of the Severiges Scoutforbund (Swedish Boy Scouts) and during the Second World War he integrated that organization into Sweden's defence system.
		Bernadotte was fluent in six languages and carried out a great deal of important diplomatic work during the war.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDbernadotte.htm (284 words)

	Israel and the Arab Coalition in 1948
		Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN mediator, omitted all reference to the UN partition plan, and proposed the partition of mandatory Palestine between Israel and Transjordan.
		Having failed to promote a settlement of the Palestine problem, Bernadotte proposed the extension of the truce that was due to expire on 9 July.
		He therefore summoned Count Bernadotte to Amman to express his extreme unease at the prospect of war breaking out afresh and to urge him to use the full power of the UN to bring about a reversal of the Arab League's warlike decision.
	www.fathom.com /course/72810001/session4.html (1761 words)

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