My sisters and brother were thrilled when, thanks to the assistance of Lars Åke Näsman at Skansen, we found the very garden where in 1944 our father proposed to our mother. Then we met a member of the Swedish royal family!...
(2009) The biography of Walter Schellenberg, one of Nazi Germany's top leaders as the head of foreign intelligence....
The beautiful wedding gift given to my parents included the name “Lars Hill-Lindqvist.” I have not been able to find the name spelled with a "v" (even in Google Sweden) but have found the name spelled Lars Hill-Lindquist. I am trying to uncover how this particular gentlemen knew...
There were two gentlemen who worked for the Swedish American Line, known as SAL, who knew my father (Herman F. Allen) well. I am searching for clues....
Åke Stavenow was a lieutenant in the Swedish military and a close associate of Count Folke Bernadotte....
[caption id="attachment_8087" align="alignright" width="302"] Charles Huntoon in his working office, July 15, 2010.[/caption] On July 15th I had the pleasure of interviewing USAAF veteran Charles Huntoon in Portland, Maine. 1st Lt. Huntoon was the pilot of the B-24H Hoo-Jive that on the 25th of August 1944 left...
Leo Sager, Swedish diplomat, was the assistant to Count Folke Bernadotte and was in charge of several of the internment camps....
In 1928, Count Bernadotte married Estelle Manville, the daughter of Hiram Edward Manville, Chairman of the Board of the Johns-Manville Corp. ...
Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg was born in 1895. His father, Oscar Bernadotte, was the 2nd son of Oscar II, King of Sweden from 1872 until 1907 and of Norway from 1872 until 1905. ...