Count Folke Bernadotte: Sweden's Servant of Peace (2010)

[willvarfar]

Another notable Swede is Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who issued Swedish passports and sheltered thousands of Jews in Budapest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg . He disappeared and died in Russian captivity.

(Random lighthearted fact: because his exact date of death is disputed, Google's AI summary in the search results tells me his age is 113.)

On another scale, Carl Gustaf von Rosen was a Swedish count who defended Biafra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_von_Rosen

[mamonster]

The craziest one to me is still that Fridtjof Nansen's main sidekick in helping Armenian refugees was .... Vidkun Quisling.

[bjourne]

Maybe my perspective is slanted, but it seems that nobility was way more badass back then. Nowadays they just hide out in Saint-Tropez, Monaco, or chill on their yachts and don't care much about the world.

[Podrod]

I have the AI summary stuff disabled but the regular Google infobox tells me he died in 1947 aged 34. Kinda amusing how the AI disagrees.

von Rosen and the Biafran Air Force is quite fascinating.

[GardenLetter27]

Crazy how awful the Russians were - same with Josef Bryks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Bryks

And yet a lot of young people somehow think they were good guys.

[southernplaces7]

"Von Rosen's happiness with his second wife, Hanny, ended with the outbreak of World War II. She joined the resistance, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in Germany. After the war, she committed suicide[citation needed] in 1949."

What a bizarre way of phrasing things. His happiness with his second wife ended with the outbreak of the war? They say this specific thing as if they were referring to some marital breach, not seeing their time together be destroyed through arrest by a genocidally monstrous secret police agency, internment in one of its concentration camps and later suicide, probably from the trauma of surviving those two events. Yes, such a thing will destroy.... marital happiness, to say the least.

[pbiggar]

The Stern gang, who killed him, became the IDF (along with the Haganah and the Irgun). These groups performed the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that allowed Israel to be built on Palestinian land (commonly known as the Nakba).

> One of the chief organisers of the assassination was Yitzhak Shamir, who became Israel’s prime minister in 1984.

Exactly.

[antonymoose]

This is the part that I never understood about US-Israeli relations, that they were going on doing terrible deeds from the beginning.

How exactly did they go from these constant attacks including on a close ally like the British to “Greatest Ally” status.

[breppp]

The Irgun was forcibly integrated into the IDF, claiming dead and almost triggering a civil war.

Something the Palestinians could never muster, and one of the reasons they are still in this position, stateless under the control of Hamas

[lysace]

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[breppp]

It's been 1 day since the last hackernews mandated hour of Israeli hate