officers and soldiers from the swedish army. red cross doctors and nurses. among the burn adults one system. swedish transport vehicles were to be allowed into germany to collect scandinavian prisoners from other concentration camps and move them to annoy government. allied forces by now in control of the skies over germany were informed of the plan . you're their response would give the whole campaign its news. burn it up spoke to some. of the allied forces and said ok we're doing this rescue actions and us and then the soldiers said no we can't guarantee you that so it's better if you take the bus it's white or if we can see which buses belong to your rescue action. and so they decided on painting the bus as white. and they decided to put the swedish flock to paint it on the roof so that the planes could see these anon german buses but is going to neighboring buses. on march the eighth one thousand nine hundred forty five the first column of swedish buses that white paint still wet boarded a ferry in the swedish court of moma. four days later the vanguard o

as vice president of the swedish red cross he was leading the biggest humanitarian effort of world war two. he had come to germany to negotiate with heinrich himmler nazi minister of the interior. this meeting would secure the release of thousands of concentration camp person use. by the end of the war byrne adults mission known as the white buses. would successfully evacuate thirty thousand prisoners of over twenty nationalities to safety in sweden. one third of them were jews. in the aftermath of war those jews who had survived the holocaust began to leave a continent that had become for them a personal hell. after there was. a big guy. like the birds to flee to palestine. the lists of ships they discovered that. they didn't the l.o.'s. country. the british the ruling all thirty in palestine had decided to put a stop to the tide of jewish immigration. the tide the pumpkin swelling since fascism had begun its march across. in one thousand nine hundred thirty six local arab objections to both british colonial rule and mass jewish immigration into their homeland erupted into a full scal