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Killing the Count: White Buses

The story of Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden and how he rescued concentration camp inmates from Germany during WWII. In part one of Killing the Count , we explore the story of Count Folke Bernadotte’s efforts during World War II to help prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. Bernadotte negotiated the release of more than 30,000 prisoners, one third of them Jews, from German concentration camps, in an extraordinary humanitarian effort which would come to be known as the 'White Buses campaign'.

English
  • Originally Aired June 12, 2014
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Network Al Jazeera
  • Created August 14, 2014 by
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