TIL that Count Bernadotte, the famous Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from concentration camps during WW2, was murdered in 1948 by militant Zionists (approved by a future Prime Minister) while serving as UN peace mediator in the Holy Land.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte



Submitted April 06, 2015 at 12:39PM by _Perfectionist http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31lsv0/til_that_count_bernadotte_the_famous_swedish/