Author: Folke BernadottePublisher:
ISBN: 9781258005177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Curtain Falls
Author: Folke BernadottePublisher:
ISBN: 9781258005177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Curtain Falls: The Last Days Of The Third Reich
Author: Folke BernadottePublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786255731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
COUNT FOLKE BERNADOTTE attracted the whole world’s attention during the hectic months that preceded the total collapse of the Third Reich and the capitulation of the German forces. About the middle of February 1945 he set out from Sweden for Germany to try to establish contact with Heinrich Himmler and induce him to allow all Danes and Norwegians in German concentration camps to be transported to Sweden for internment until the end of the war. In this book, which is based on his own notes and reports, Count Bernadotte describes his various missions, which were repeated up to the very day of the surrender, his meetings with Himmler and other leading figures of the Nazi regime, and gives Intimate close-ups of the events and the weird atmosphere in which the last act of the drama of the Third Reich was played. He explains, further, how his project, which originally had had a purely humanitarian character, developed a political one of great importance when, long past the eleventh hour, he was asked to convey, via the Swedish Government, Himmler’s offer of surrender to the western Powers. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen by the victorious powers to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1947-1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by members of the underground Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties.
The Curtain Falls
Author: Folke Bernadotte af WisborgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Curtain Falls, Last Days of the Third Reich
Author: Bernadotte af Wisborg (Folke, greve)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Curtain Falls: Last Days of the Third Reich
Author: The Curtain Falls
Author: Folke Bernadotte af WisborgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Curtain Falls. Last Days of the Third Reich. Transl. from the Swedish by E. Lewenhaupt
Author: The Curtain Falls
Author: Folke BernadottePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Curtain Falls
Author: Comte Folke Bernadotte (grefve.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Last Days of the Reich
Author: Count Folke BernadottePublisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1848325223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Count Folke Bernadotte was one of those rare figures in war ' a man trusted by both sides alike. Shortly before the war ended, Bernadotte was the leader of a rescue operation to transfer western European inmates to Swedish hospitals in the so-called 'White Buses'. This work through the Swedish Red Cross involved mercy missions to Germany and it was through this link that Bernadotte came into touch with prominent Nazi leaders in the 1940s. During the last months of the war, Bernadotte was introduced to Heinrich Himmler ' one of the most sinister men of the Third Reich. Bernadotte was asked by Himmler to approach the Allies with the proposal of a complete surrender to Britain and the US ' providing Germany could continue to fight the Soviet Union. The offer was passed to Winston Churchill and Harry Truman, but rejected. The course of these negotiations is narrated in this book with a simple, compelling clarity and thrilling immediacy. This new edition of Bernadotte's memoir includes a Preface by his two sons, and an Introduction by a leading Swedish author discussing Count Bernadotte's wartime record and his post-war assassination.