Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945 

Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945 

"Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in German" Production date, April 1945. Part 1 Greve Folke Bernadotte leaves for mission to Germany, plane takes off. Red Cross personnel get off a white bus. In Malmo they take a ferry to Copenhagen. Happy, freed prisoners board the boat at the dock. Poles and French land in Sweden. Old women. Small children. Womenfolk. Wagon rolls inland from ferry. Countess Maj-Lis from Eichstedt, born Luening, greets them welcome home. Boarding ambulances, taken to curatorium/convalescent home. Old woman greets her stretcher bearer. Bearer loads her onto ambulance.