r/JewsOfConscience • u/RabbitNo4718 • Oct 02 '24

History Folke Bernadotte, the Diplomat Who Saved 31,000 Jews and Non-Jews from Nazi Germany and Was Assassinated by Zionists for Advocating Palestinian Rights

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u/BerlinJohn1985 Oct 02 '24

Just to be clear, that number breaks down to 450 Jews, 30,550 Non-Jews from several countries. Normally, that headline I would say is no problem, but its reference to his assination by Lehi is setting up a dynamic of ungratefulness.

However, to still be fair, that was just from the Theresienstadt camp. There were more rescues with thousands of more prisoners. But these were more focused on rescuing Scandanavian citizens, with Jews and Poles being a smaller concern. These were good things, but that headline seems to imply the missions held Jews as a main focus, which is misleading.

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u/oncothrow Hasidim Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

Normally, that headline I would say is no problem, but its reference to his assination by Lehi is setting up a dynamic of ungratefulness.

Isn’t it? People have been deemed "Righteous among the Nations " for less. His name isn't amongst them. Rather he rescued hundreds of Jews from the Nazis and was instead assassinated.

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u/BerlinJohn1985 Oct 02 '24

Usually Righteous Among the Nations involves someone risking their own lives to save Jews. I don't believe Bernadotte was ever in danger, he was a diplomat who negotiated with Nazi officials. The point I was making was not he deserved what he got, aboslutely not, nor that he did not do heroic things, he did, but only that the headline is misleading and not very nuanced. And that his efforts were not specifically about helping Jews escape the death camps, but was more about recovering Western Europeans who were being held by the Nazi regime. It doesn't make his murder at the hands of Lehi any less than Zionist bullshit.

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u/oncothrow Hasidim Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

Usually Righteous Among the Nations involves someone risking their own lives to save Jews. I don't believe Bernadotte was ever in danger, he was a diplomat who negotiated with Nazi officials.

He escorted the convoys himself and himself came under strafing fire from allied planes.

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u/skkkkkt Oct 02 '24

I'm sorry but that's weird, no one would put themselves in danger to save someone Jewish or not, unless it's a very close relation, like a parent a son/daughter, I'm just saying the concept of righteous among nations abd if it's true you should put yourself in danger to someone is kinda narcissistic

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u/rapchee Oct 02 '24

i guess if he rescued 450 jews and just 10 non-jews, he would've been spared