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(1945) [MARC] Author: Folke Bernadotte Translator: Eric Lewenhaupt - Tema: War
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useful, and I see no reason why permission should
not be granted.”

Bernadotte: “And to facilitate the work, the
Norwegians and Danes in question should be
collected into two camps, one for each group. The
total number of Norwegian and Danish prisoners
is probably somewhere about thirteen thousand.”

Himmler: “That figure is greatly exaggerated.
I don’t know the exact number, but I should not
think it can be more than two or three thousand.
However, I shall look into the matter.”

Himmler had accepted my proposal. He also
agreed that the aged, the sick, and mothers should
be allowed to return to Norway after having been
assembled in the camps. He did not even raise any
objection to the Swedish Red Cross staffs being
admitted to the camps to assist in the collection of
the prisoners.

There remained one subject, a delicate as well
as an important one. It concerned the Swedish
women who had married Germans and were in
consequence German citizens. These we were
determined to get out of Germany. In raising the

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