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Raoul and Rolf Nordling

Raoul Nordling

The Swedish Consul General to Paris was Raoul Nordling. In the closing days of German control over Paris, he was instrumental in saving lives of political prisoners about to be moved eastwards during the general evacuation. Later he was to arrange a cease-fire between the Resistance, and the German occupiers of Paris.

In order to avoid destroying Paris, General von Choltitz - Commandant of Gross Paris - asked Nordling to lead a mission through German lines to ask the Allies to come quickly. Suffering a heart attack just before his departure, there was only other person who could go in his stead. This was because the name written by von Choltitz on the laissez-passer was ``R. Nordling.'' Thus the mission was actually carried out by Raoul's brother: Rolf Nordling.

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Updated 08/94