The UN calls for a cease-fire on…
May 1948 CE
The UN calls for a cease-fire on May 20 and appoints Swedish soldier, humanitarian, and diplomat Folke, Count Bernadotte, as mediator.
A nephew of King Gustav V of Sweden, Bernadotte, commissioned in the Swedish Army in 1918, had become an official of the Boy Scout movement and during the Second World War had headed the Swedish Red Cross, securing the exchange of many prisoners of war and being credited with saving some twenty thousand inmates of German concentration camps.
His excellent reputation among all the combatant nations in Europe had led the Nazi official Heinrich Himmler to employ him to transmit a fruitless offer (April 24, 1945) that Germany surrender unconditionally to the United Kingdom and the United States but not to the Soviet Union.
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