Imagine if Folke Bernadotte had been allowed to live. Already during the Second World War, the Swedish count and humanitarian had achieved near-miracles getting tens of thousands of concentration ...

Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish royal and diplomat, saved thousands, including Jews, from Nazi concentration camps. He even brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Arab nations in the 1948 war.

Even in tranquil Rhodes, U.N.'s Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was offered a mediation job. Two local soccer teams, the Dorics and Diagonos, both claimed the Rhodian championship, and ...

Folke Bernadotte, nephew of King Gustav of Sweden, was raised in a thoroughly Lutheran home. Because of his marked musical talent, he was forced to play the organ during the family’s daily ...

Speaking to BBC World Service's Witness History, Count Bernadotte's youngest son, Bertil Bernadotte, told how he first learned of his father's death while listening to the radio at the age of 12.

Folke Bernadotte, centre, talks to Obersturmbahnführer Dr Heinz Rennau and Svendsen, the Norwegian seamen's pastor in Hamburg. Nordiska Museet. Thousands of Norwegians, as well as Danes, were ...

Folke Bernadotte with his future wife Estelle Mansville in 1928 In naming Sweden's newest princess Estelle, the Royal Family is trying to revive the legacy of Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish royal and ...

He was charged by the UN with bringing peace to Palestine– but died at the hands of Jewish assassins. Now, 60 years after his death, the memory of the Swedish aristocrat Folke Bernadotte is ...