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White Buses operation 1945

White Buses operation: From March to May 1945, Count Folke Bernadotte led a Swedish Red Cross mission that evacuated approximately 15,000 concentration camp prisoners — primarily Scandinavians but also other nationalities — using 36 buses painted white with red crosses to avoid Allied air attack.

Tier
C
Confidence
B
Bias risk
Medium
Kind
foreign-policy
Date
1945-03

White Buses operation: From March to May 1945, Count Folke Bernadotte led a Swedish Red Cross mission that evacuated approximately 15,000 concentration camp prisoners — primarily Scandinavians but also other nationalities — using 36 buses painted white with red crosses to avoid Allied air attack.

In the chronology of the Swedish model, this anchors 1945 under Per Albin Hansson as a year shaped by institutions, public conflict, reform, or security policy rather than cabinet arithmetic alone.

Source confidence is B: the basic event is promoted, while broader interpretation still depends on the cited source tier and later primary-source upgrades.

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