Harald Edelstam was a Swedish diplomat. During World War II, he operated as a diplomat in Nazi-occupied Norway and helped hundreds of Jews, SOE agents and saboteurs escape from the Germans. These actions earned him the nickname “The Black Pimpernel”, a reference to the literary hero the Scarlet Pimpernel, who saved huge numbers of people from the Jacobins during the French Revolution.
History would repeat itself in 1973, when a military coup in Chile brought Augusto Pinochet to power. Following the coup, the Cuban Embassy came under fire from Chilean tanks. Edelstam, who was the Swedish ambassador to Chile at the time, grabbed a Swedish flag and walked in front of the tanks to the embassy, then took the Cubans who were inside to the Swedish Embassy. Edelstam also helped over a thousand Chileans escape persecution by the Pinochet regime, along with 67 Bolivian and Uruguayan refugees.
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When saving the world becomes your recurring side quest
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Sometime the movie is just so good you have to make a sequel.
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Harald Edelstam was a Swedish diplomat. During World War II, he operated as a diplomat in Nazi-occupied Norway and helped hundreds of Jews, SOE agents and saboteurs escape from the Germans. These actions earned him the nickname “The Black Pimpernel”, a reference to the literary hero the Scarlet Pimpernel, who saved huge numbers of people from the Jacobins during the French Revolution.
History would repeat itself in 1973, when a military coup in Chile brought Augusto Pinochet to power. Following the coup, the Cuban Embassy came under fire from Chilean tanks. Edelstam, who was the Swedish ambassador to Chile at the time, grabbed a Swedish flag and walked in front of the tanks to the embassy, then took the Cubans who were inside to the Swedish Embassy. Edelstam also helped over a thousand Chileans escape persecution by the Pinochet regime, along with 67 Bolivian and Uruguayan refugees.
When saving the world becomes your recurring side quest
Sometime the movie is just so good you have to make a sequel.