Folke Bernadotte

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (Swedish: Greve af Wisborg; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman, noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945.

Folke Bernadotte was born in Stockholm into the House of Bernadotte. He was the son of Count Oscar Bernadotte of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Gotland) and his wife Ebba Munck af Fulkila. Bernadotte's grandfather was King Oscar II of Sweden.

Bernadotte attended school in Stockholm, after which he entered training to become a cavalry officer at the Military Academy Karlberg. He took the officer's exam in 1915, and was commissioned a lieutenant in 1918, subsequently moving up to the rank of major.

During the autumns of 1943 and 1944, he organized prisoner exchanges which brought home 11,000 prisoners from Germany via Sweden.

Upon the initiative of the Norwegian diplomat Niels Christian Ditleff in the final months of the war, Bernadotte acted as the negotiator for a rescue operation transporting interned Norwegians, Danes and other western European inmates from German concentration camps to hospitals in Sweden.

While vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945, Bernadotte attempted to negotiate an armistice between Germany and the Allies. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected. He also led several rescue missions in Germany for the Red Cross.

On 20 May 1948, Folke Bernadotte was appointed the United Nations's mediator in Palestine, the first official mediator in the UN's history. In this capacity, he succeeded in achieving an initial truce during the subsequent 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the Jewish nationalist Zionist group Lehi (commonly known as the Stern Gang or Stern Group).

In Downfall Universe
Bernadotte is mentioned once by Hitler during the Hitler Eating Scene, when he reads a message that tells him Himmler tried to negociate a surrender with the Allies, on his back.

His name has not been mentioned in any parodies yet, and due to his good deeds, it's unlikely he'll be a central character in parodies.