Walking with the Damned: The Shocking Murder of the Man who Freed 30,000 Prisoners from the NazisParagon House, 1992 - 326 pages One of the best untold stories of World War II and its aftermath, this tragic tale interweaves two amazing plots: how Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden pursuaded high-ranking Nazis to spare the lives of nearly 30,000 death camp inmates, and why Jewish extremists assassinated Bernadotte in Jerusalem in 1948. |
Contents
RESCUE FROM RAVENSBRÜCK | 3 |
AN UNLIKELY HERO | 11 |
GERMANYS OTHER FÜHRER | 23 |
CONSOLIDATION OF NAZI POWER | 43 |
THE JEWS | 75 |
THE RISE OF JEWISH REBELS | 87 |
TERRORISM AND THE BRITISH | 97 |
MOVING TO WAR | 121 |
THE BERNADOTTE MISSION | 211 |
WARS IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH | 257 |
A HEROS FATE IS SEALED | 279 |
Selected Bibliography | 313 |
Index | 319 |
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References to this book
Dictionary of the Holocaust: Biography, Geography, and Terminology Eric J. Epstein,Philip Rosen No preview available - 1997 |