Al Jazeera Documentaries

Killing the Count: White Buses (2014x1)

Air date: Jun 12, 2014

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'.