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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Bernadotte af Wisborg, Counts of Arlon, Counts of Berg, Counts of Salm, Counts of Vianden, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Folke Bernadotte, John of Bohemia, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, List of monarchs of Luxembourg, Grandchildren of Lennart Bernadotte, Count Lennart Bernadotte of Wisborg, Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg, Henry IV, Duke of Limburg, Gerhard VI of Julich, Count of Berg and Ravensberg, Hermann of Salm, Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg, Otto I, Count of Burgundy, Henry V, Count of Luxembourg, Count of Wisborg, Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg, Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, Waleran III, Duke of Limburg, Sonja Bernadotte, Siegfried of Luxembourg, William VII of Julich, 1st Duke of Berg, Adolf VIII of Berg, Adolf VII of Berg, Henry II, Duke of Limburg, Adolf IX of Berg, Henry III, Duke of Limburg, Henry V, Duke of Bavaria, Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg, Henry VII, Duke of Bavaria, Giselbert of Luxembourg, William I of Berg, William, Count of Luxembourg, House of Salm, Conrad II, Count of Luxembourg, Henry III, Count of Luxembourg. 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 p...
