LA FIN Mes négociations humanitaires en Allemagne au printemps 1945 et leurs conséquences politiques - The End - My humanitarian negotiations in Germany in the spring of 1945 and their political consequences by the Swedish Count and diplomat Folke Bernadotte. Published by Marguerat. Lausanne 1945 - first French edition (translated from Swedish by Madeleine Blanc-Paulsen).
Important publication in which Bernadotte documents his actions to save Jews and other prisoners at the end of the war. His meetings and conversations with General Eisenhower, his heroic actions to rescue Norwegian citizens who were imprisoned in camps in Germany and transfer them to Sweden, the rescue of the Jews of Theresienstadt, the fateful negotiations he conducted with Himmler to release prisoners to whom at a relatively early stage he said he was willing to surrender on the Western Front, Adolf Hitler's reactions to his rescue attempts, as well as the content of talks he held with other Nazi leaders regarding the end of the war and the rescue of the Jews, and more.
"Not without hesitation, in response to the wishes of many people, I am reporting here the events I witnessed during my activity in the service of the Swedish Red Cross in Germany, in the last months of the Second World War. I overcame my difficulties in the hope that this testimony will shed some light on the dramatic events of the collapse of the Third Reich. I compiled my story based on notes and reports from my travels in Germany, from February 1945 until the end of April 1945." (From the author's words in the introduction).
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg [1895-1948] a diplomat from the Swedish royal family. During World War II, he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from Nazi Germany's concentration and extermination camps, including 450 Danish Jews who were in the Theresienstadt camp. The prisoners were released on April 14, 1945. He later mediated on behalf of the UN between the State of Israel and the Arab states in the War of Independence. He was assassinated in Jerusalem by members of the Lehi organization who opposed his plan and claimed it was pro-Arab.
141 p. Very good condition.
