Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Folke Bernadotte, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Durham Stevens, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Dan Mitrione, Stephen Saunders, John Granville, Thomas C. Wasson, Adolph Dubs, Alexander Burnes, Richard Welch, William Horwood Stuart, Henry W. Antheil, Jr., Yosef Alon, Augustus Raymond Margary, Choe Deok-geun, Shlomo Argov, Ernst vom Rath, Cleo A. Noel, Jr., Laurence Foley, Said Hammami, William Hay Macnaghten, Jorge Carpio Nicolle, Tran Van Chuong, Karl von Spreti, George Curtis Moore, Vladimir Rolovi, Wilhelm von Mirbach, Francis E. Meloy, Jr., Charles Thomas Rowcroft, Kassi Manlan, Richard Sykes, William Nordeen, Walter Plowden, Tullus Cloelius, Roger Short, Rodger Davies, John Gordon Mein, Freddie Woodruff. Excerpt: Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg; in Swedish: Greve af Wisborg (2 January 1895 - 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected. 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 militant Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties. The Lehi was led at the time by Yitzhak Shamir, who was later to become Prime Minister of Israel. Folke Bernadotte was born in Stockholm into the House of Bernadotte. He was the son of Count Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Gotland) and his spouse Ebba Munck af Fulkila. Bernadotte's grandfather was King Oscar II of Sweden. Bernadotte attended school in Stockholm, after which...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Assassinated Diplomats: Folke Bernadotte, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Durham Stevens, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Dan Mitrione. To get started finding Assassinated Diplomats: Folke Bernadotte, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Durham Stevens, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Dan Mitrione, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Assassinated Diplomats: Folke Bernadotte, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Durham Stevens, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Dan Mitrione
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Folke Bernadotte, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Durham Stevens, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Dan Mitrione, Stephen Saunders, John Granville, Thomas C. Wasson, Adolph Dubs, Alexander Burnes, Richard Welch, William Horwood Stuart, Henry W. Antheil, Jr., Yosef Alon, Augustus Raymond Margary, Choe Deok-geun, Shlomo Argov, Ernst vom Rath, Cleo A. Noel, Jr., Laurence Foley, Said Hammami, William Hay Macnaghten, Jorge Carpio Nicolle, Tran Van Chuong, Karl von Spreti, George Curtis Moore, Vladimir Rolovi, Wilhelm von Mirbach, Francis E. Meloy, Jr., Charles Thomas Rowcroft, Kassi Manlan, Richard Sykes, William Nordeen, Walter Plowden, Tullus Cloelius, Roger Short, Rodger Davies, John Gordon Mein, Freddie Woodruff. Excerpt: Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg; in Swedish: Greve af Wisborg (2 January 1895 - 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected. 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 militant Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties. The Lehi was led at the time by Yitzhak Shamir, who was later to become Prime Minister of Israel. Folke Bernadotte was born in Stockholm into the House of Bernadotte. He was the son of Count Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Gotland) and his spouse Ebba Munck af Fulkila. Bernadotte's grandfather was King Oscar II of Sweden. Bernadotte attended school in Stockholm, after which...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Assassinated Diplomats: Folke Bernadotte, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Durham Stevens, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Dan Mitrione. To get started finding Assassinated Diplomats: Folke Bernadotte, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Durham Stevens, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Dan Mitrione, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.