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i robin's brook germany 90 kilometer north of berlin. the com i o. yes, this name is synonymous with one of the most notorious lots of concentration and specially built to house women and children. i find 1945 over 130000 female prison passed through revenues. i punish women were the largest group incarcerated.

many of them i more than 90000, died in robins from 70 percent of those sent to this day the deserted houses of the ss gods, remain homes of offices under the command of one of the most feared and powerful men in germany. heinrich himmler, the man with whom count folk burn adults, would have to negotiate to secure the release of scandinavian prisoners on the one hand, then a dutch wanted to save as many presents as, as possible. on the other hand, negotiating with the leading nazi, i came to some extent implied, recognizing it as the kind of partner. so

it's a dilemma. it's a catch 20 tooth, tracy. but for bernard arch, there was no choice. on the 19th of february, 19453 days off to his arrival in germany, he was taken up and then a sanatorium at her mission, not far from robin's broke. he was brought here to meet himmler, that his filler in the sanitarium grounds. at the negotiating table, similar flatly rejected, burned adults proposal for the release of all scandinavian prisoners but bernard dogs achieved one major concession that norwegian and danish inmates should be moved to a camp where the swedish red cross would be able to support them.

but camp was called night and gamma 9 gamma was the camp which was nearest the danish border. so he hoped that time of the similar with whom he was negotiating would say, okay, take all the scandinavian prisoners back home. and then he wanted to be as near to the danish border as he could. and this was why they chose 9 government as a place. the 3 days after meeting him not been adopt was back in sweden, working hard to assemble a rescue expedition. ah, 300 volunteers were quickly identifies officers and soldiers from the swedish army

with red cross doctors, and nurses among the adults. ah, the swedish transport mer to be allowed in germany to collect scandinavian prisoners from other concentration camps and move them to noise. the allied forces by now in control of the skies over germany were informed of the plan. with their response, it gives a whole campaign its name. bernard up spoke to some commander of the allied forces and said, okay, we are doing the threats to action and please don't fumble. and then the soldier said, no, we can't guarantee you that. so it's better to take the bus white, or if we can see which buses belong to arrest you action. and so

they decided on painting the bus is white. and they decided to put the swedish slack to painted on the roof so that the planes are, these are non german buses, but these are gonna be naval buses. ah, on march the 8th 1945, the 1st column of swedish buses, the white paints still red haunted a fairy in the swedish hopes of moment. mm. 4 days later, the vanguard of the expedition reached the place, spurn dot, had chosen as its headquarters in germany, friedrich through castle, all the castle was owned by prince auto. from bismark, the grandson of germany's island,

chancellor. his wife and marie tank was swedish. when i'm a 100 meter familiar banner, not as williams presented limit fug bernard dell. my mother was friendly with the bernard dot family and especially with concern adoption of his who came here a lot to negotiate with the representative of the 3rd. right. when he did that bulk of an adult, always stayed here over night, or to be got on with my mother, or rather with my parents very well. she said good push done from bismark castle home that freed this room was ideally placed close to the danish border. and just 20 kilometers from 9 gamma o device booster. here units and tyler,

stella jackson, vote in for the school on board and done the white buses. we're headquartered in the zack's involved forest, an entire year in friedrich through push and was sent out to various different areas of germany, to pick up prisoners from the concentration camps to name and to try wherever possible, to take them back to scandinavian, avi, and simply use the 1st phase of the evacuation started on march, the 15th, the white buses divided into 2 platoons, around 40 ss and gets stopped, or liaison officers were attached to the expedition. the 1st platoon headed east to the temper sexton house and the 300 kilometers away. steve young musson, a swedish red cross volunteer, accompanied them as

a motorcycle escort nearer the compton section house. and so small you saw when we finally arrived and sucks. and carson, who combed the gates were open it, and a lot of norwegians came out in a fairly orderly way that it nor would i don't over the 1st stage. and when they took the 1st steps more 3 years towards freedom. there are no play with that was an experience stood up lives, huge experience. 30 really the 2nd white bus, his platoon headed south to duck ho,

shown belk and mount house. they took with them the details lists of danish and norwegian prisoners being held in nazi custody. the list helped the people from the rescue mission to know whom they searched in which camp. so they took the lists and went or drove until the concentration comes and they could read out. mister anderson, mister johnson and so on. must be here. so we searched for him and he is to come to the bus and we take him with us. so it made it very easy in that part for the rescue action that the lists were there. but within 2 weeks, the white buses campaign had become a victim of its own success.

by late march, more than 4500 danish and norwegian prisoners had been evacuated and brought to the noise gamma camp which was over capacity even before the 1st white bus arrived. mm. none gamma had been billed for 2500 prisoners and at the end, shortly before the scandinavians were brought here, there were 14000 prisoners. so the camp was totally crowded, and the people were dying because no one had an old bed and there was not enough to eat and so on. the germans insisted that if the evacuations were to continue, the swedish buses would have to transfer 2000 inmates of noise gamma away to other attempts. on the 27th of march,

the swedish yielded to the german demand the white buses designed to save scandinavian prisoners when now carrying hundreds of others to an unknown future. as far as we know, not many of them made it because they were so ill and dying that many, many of them died during the transports in the swamp buses, 2 other concentration camps. and this was a problem for the scandinavian prisoners knowing that those people had been brought away in order to give them space. they hadn't asked for this. they weren't guilty but, but they felt they were guilty because they are better alive, was made. other people die.

this terrible task complete the white buses could return to their job of collecting more scandinavian inmates from camps and prisons scattered across nazi germany. and by the beginning of april, 1945, some, 7000 danish and norwegians had been brought together in 9 gamma but the ultimate purpose was still to be achieved, getting all the scandinavian prisoners out of germany, and away to safety and sweden. oh, oh. once more, count fulton been adult, the driving force behind the expedition returned to germany. the himmler agreed this time to the transfer of the sick and of all females tend to navient

prisoners. this by the 18th of a more than 1200 sick prisoners had arrived in sweden. ah, i the following day, which is forces arrived at the river elbow practically within sight of noise. ah, by now german control of the camp will go to the through the 1st of the german soldiers. i think most of them ran and hit.

at that point, when the war was almost over, there was nothing they could do to live what is called all. and it wasn't easy being a german soldier with dogs. if they were out on the streets, they were terrible anything which marked them as being a german, or in the chaos now engulfing germany. evacuation of the camp became a matter of logistics rather than a mission. danish passage now joined, relieving exhausted swedish fallen to awe by april. the 20th hitler's love birthday $4300.00 norwegians and danes. i've been rescued from noise gamma

ah, most were brought to a reception center set up in a spot in the swedish city of ram. ah, today, this memorial beyond the waves in the grounds of the spar is dedicated to the efforts of the white buses expedition but the white bus volunteers were not finish and the bus driver who came from sweden and denmark, they told us that it was very cruel to see other people, other prisoners were non scandinavians, standing there, seeing the white buses. seeing the red cross and laughing and yelling and thinking they would be rescued. now because red cross buses were arriving. and then they had

to say, no, sorry, we are only taking the scandinavian prisoners in . no dot wanted to try to save those. they had been forced to leave behind. the, the to return would mean, facing a new danger. allied forces were attracting virtually anything that moved on german roads. on the 15th of april, the white buses left freed restraint on their most dangerous mission. yet a long trip south to theresienstadt in what is today the czech republic natalia, that is the we stayed over night in that s and stuff and there were $400.00 juice.

i think it was the families we were picking up there. so we entered there or are there not yoda sold? and during the night while we slept at the they loaded up the buses. i think everything was ready and there was, there were some complaints. one baby carriage is what we had to throw them away. that i remember the ah, after a perilous return journey, they achieved what looked impossible just weeks earlier in thank you, eating 424 danish jews. ah, the jews didn't come 1st. mrs. effect is nothing to make friends about because situation was much would understand the situation. germany also under what

conditions they could squeeze the ss and himmler done. other good stuff saying while i'm coming here to, i want to to ask if you could do that. but after a while quite another job, whereas killed me, i been, adults. next goal was reverence broke and the release of french women held there with the advancing sophia tommy just days away. himmler unexpectedly agreed to the evacuation of the entire camp. women of over 20 nationalities or do i make your palms corina? well, there were many polish women notes about it. and among them there were 3 women that

were awhile up to their pregnancies were well advanced. so that way and some of the fro got in the back to the someone asked the guards. it was how come there was so many pregnant women born and the chairman said that it was on the spirit and began to do his me. oh no. so we have this chief medical officer with us on hold on with his name and he told the person in charge that one of them would probably become a mother during the night, a handed and wrote over to the boy enough. or do you know where the dome in those so the kind of a parent. so they put it out a bus which they called are albin. they figured it out like the maternity ward. and the 3 women were kept in there with any one on one of

them came to us on that night. i in the closing days of april, the white buses transported some 10000 women to sweden. the ah ah, at the end of the month with soviet troops battling their way into berlin. i don't hitler committed suicide. the war

in europe had just a few days to run on may the 1st, the swedish white buses came home to melbourne with all except one volunteer. they've been got records to document that out of it. so that it is done is obviously that when you need don davis administrator, i'm not sure on the data and you transport it up. well, nobody got constant bathrooms, negative thing, instead of a was been, you know, another of me or add

a hater or you, i ended up job product and then you then change up. so it's good or out of that now and then some new more another i don't me didn't leave a message. ok . after the germans surrender, the buses would return to bring another $10000.00 prisoners to sweden. of 30000 lives saved by the white buses. at least 10000 would use me

in the months that followed count folk, abundant dot was honored by countries whose citizens had been saved by the campaign . jewish organizations were among the 1st to celebrate his achievement. banner doubts was now an international star. 3 years later he was called on again, heading this time to the middle east, which had been plunged into war ah, quite plain with you. and the red cross markings was carrying the brave count. nephew of the swedish king organizer of the white classes campaigned on

a mission that would seal his fate. the folk abandon, adults was on his way to palestine and to his death at the hands of jewish military i ah, ah ah ah ah

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