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	Folke Bernadotte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oscar, the son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, married without the King's consent in 1888, thereby leaving the royal family, and was (in 1892) given the hereditary title Count of Wisborg by the Grand Duke Adolphe of Luxembourg.
		Bernadotte, while vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945, attempted to negotiate an armistice between Germany and the Allies.
		Bernadotte was assassinated on September 17, 1948 by members of the Zionist terrorist group Lehi, sometimes known as the Stern Gang.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folke_Bernadotte (775 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Folke Bernadotte
		Count Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg (January 2, 1895 - September 17, 1948), was a Swedish diplomat noted for his negotiation of the release of 21,000 prisoners from the German concentration camps in World War II and for his assassination by radical Zionists during his service as United Nations mediator in Palestine.
		Bernadotte was assassinated on September 17th, 1948 by the Zionist underground group Lehi, sometimes known as the Stern Gang.
		Bernadotte was assassinated on September 17th, 1948 by the Zionist underground group Lehi (additional info and facts about Lehi), sometimes known as the Stern Gang.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Folke-Bernadotte (401 words)

	Who killed Count Folke Bernadotte?
		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.
		For LEHI, Count Folke Bernadotte, as UN mediator for "Palestine," came to symbolize the foreign oppression of the Jewish claim to the Land of Israel.
		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)

	Bernadotte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernadotte, born in the town of Pau, in the province of Béarn, France, rose to the rank of general during the tumultuous years of the French Revolution.
		Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte reigned as King Charles XIV of Sweden and Carl III Johan of Norway from February 5, 1818 until his death on March 8, 1844.
		The coat of arms of the House of Bernadotte combines the coat of arms of the House of Vasa (left, with the hint of a French-like tricolour in the background) and the coat of arms of Bernadotte as the Prince of Ponte Corvo (right).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernadotte (584 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)

	Folke Bernadotte Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Count Folke Bernadotte af 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.
		Oscar, the son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, married without the King's consent in 1888, thereby leaving the royal family, and was (in 1892) given the hereditary title Count of Wisborg by the Grand Duke Adolf of Luxembourg.
		He was assassinated, along with UN observer Colonel André Serot, on September 17th in Jerusalem by members of Lehi, a Zionist extremist group also known as the "Stern Gang", after its founder.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bernadotte_Folke.html (372 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.
		In their printed statement acknowledging responsibility for the assassinations, the killers apologized for murdering Serot "by mistake." Lundstrom escaped injury and his written report of the incident is an original source document.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4720.htm (1083 words)

	Encyklopedi :: encyclopedia : Folke Bernadotte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg, född 2 januari 1895 i Stockholm, död 17 september 1948 i Jerusalem (fbf i Oscars församling).
		Folke Bernadotte hade ursprungligen i uppdrag av regeringen att sammanföra norska och danska politiska fångar i Tyskland.
		Under ett besök i Jerusalem 17 september 1948 mördades Folke Bernadotte och den franske översten Sérot 17.30 av fyra män i jeep, som tillhörde den judiska extremistgruppen Sternligan.
	www.encyklopedi.net /Folke_Bernadotte (750 words)

	Folke Bernadotte - SWEDEN.SE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Count Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg (1895–1948) was a grandson of Oscar II, king of Sweden and Norway.
		Bernadotte had a strong negotiating position with the Germans: he was a nephew of the king of Sweden, he had a leading position within the Swedish Red Cross, he had good connections with the Americans and now he was also formally authorized to negotiate on behalf of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
		Folke Bernadotte’s 1948 mediation mission in Palestine, however, was unquestionably a failure.
	www.sweden.se /templates/cs/BasicFactsheet____4198.aspx (5324 words)

	Chapter 7: Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Folke Bernadotte: A Rosh Hashonah Remembrance
		Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish count, negotiated, organized and joined a convoy that crossed into Germany to rescue concentration camp prisoners of various nationalities and religions, including 6,500 Jews.
		Count Bernadotte, nephew of the Swedish king and a political insider, had already earned a prominent place in the ranks of "righteous gentiles" for his relief efforts during the Holocaust.
		This time, the DPs were the nearly three quarters of a million Palestinians who had fled their homes in the face of violence, and threats of violence, in the months leading up to the proclamation of the State of Israel and in the period immediately thereafter.
	baltimorechronicle.com /092104DavidHimmelstein.html (1102 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)

	Count Folke Bernadotte
		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 agains t the British and Arabs.
		It is situated in the heart of a region thickly populated with people of Scandinavian extraction and its student body is 62 percent of whole or part Swedish parentage and 83 percent whole or part of Scandinavian dec ent.
		On June 4, 1950, Countess Bernadotte and her son Bertil attended the inauguration of the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Foundation when the Folke Bernadotte Library was dedicated in the presence of 7,500 people led by Governor Luther W. Youngdahl of Minne sota, Dr. J.
	www.gustavus.edu /oncampus/academics/library/folke.html (741 words)

	Folke Bernadotte - SWEDEN.SE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Folke Bernadotte’s original assignment in Germany was only to arrange the release of Norwegian and Danish prisoners in Germany.
		Bernadotte had thus made major changes to reconcile the Israelis, but the main winner was still King Abdallah of Transjordan (and indirectly, his British allies).
		Thus, Peres’s recent ‘condemnation’ of the Bernadotte execution is a cheap political trick, and his ‘apology’ to the Bernadotte family is an act of rank hypocrisy.
	www.sweden.se /templates/FactSheet____4198.asp (5324 words)

	Folke Bernadotte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden He was the son of Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden) and his wife, née Ebba Henrietta Munck af Fulkila.
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	Folke Bernadotte - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
		Folke Bernadotte Graf von Wisborg stammte aus einem schwedischen Adelsgeschlecht.
		Bernadotte wuchs nach eigenen Angaben in einer ruhigen und liebevollen Umgebung auf.
		Folke Bernadotte von Sven Svenson, Grete Berges (Gebundene Ausgabe)
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Folke-Bernadotte.html (987 words)

	Folke Bernadotte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Count Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg (January 2 1895 - September 17 1948) is noted for his negotiation for release of prisoners from the German concentration camps in World War II He was the son of Oscar Bernadotte Count of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar Sweden) and his wife née Ebba Henrietta af Fulkila.
		On May 20 1948 Folke Bernadotte was appointed the United Nations ' mediator in Palestine.
		In particular he claimed it was unreasonable that Jews with no connection with Palestine could enter the country Palestinians who had just been forced to could not return to their villages.
	www.freeglossary.com /Count_Folke_Bernadotte (491 words)

	Count Folke Bernadotte
		Folke Bernadotte was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 2, 1895.
		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.
		It gave the United Nations General Assembly his suggested terms for a peace that was to be imposed by the United Nations, and won the immediate support of the United States and Britain.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Bernadotte.html (526 words)

	Folke bernadotte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	FOLKE BERNADOTTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		September 1948 in Jerusalem), stammte aus dem schwedischen Adelsgeschlecht Bernadotte (sein Vater, Oskar Bernadotte, war Sohn von König Oskar II.
		Bernadotte, der zunächst die Offizierslaufbahn einschlug, wurde 1943 Vizepräsident des schwedischen Roten Kreuzes.
		In dieser Funktion verhandelte er 1945 mit Heinrich Himmler erfolgreich über die Freilassung von etwa 20.000 skandinavischen KZ-Häftlingen.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/F/Folke_Bernadotte (175 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.
		Bernadotte was also in the front lines of the Arab-Israeli War of Independence.
		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)

	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)

	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)

	Ancestors and Family of Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bernadotte negotiated with Heinrich Himmler on behalf of the Swedish Red Cross, and in March and April of 1945 succeeded in persuading him to release more than seven thousand Scandinavian nationals who were being held in Nazi concentration camps; these included over four hundred Danish Jews imprisoned in Theresienstadt.
		Following a meeting between Norbert Masur, the representative of the World Jewish Congress in Sweden, and Himmler, Bernadotte also succeeded in arranging for the release of ten thousand women from the Ravensbruck concentration camp; two thousand of the women, who were nationals of various countries, were Jewish.
		Bernadotte then worked out a plan for the settlement of the conflict based on Israeli concessions to the Arabs, but on September 17 of that year he was assassinated in Jerusalem by Hazit ha-Moledet (Fatherland Front), a group connected with the Lohamei Herut Israel organization.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/54.htm (312 words)

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