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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
closeups 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.
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