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====Harald Edelstam==== [[Harald Edelstam]] (1913β1989) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] diplomat. During World War II, he earned the nickname ''Svarta nejlikan'' ("the Black Pimpernel") for helping [[Norwegian resistance movement|Norwegian resistance fighters]] in {{Interlanguage link|Hjemmefronten|nl}} escape from the Germans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/20thcentury/81-11baez-speech.html |title=Human Rights in the 80s: Seeing through both eyes |author-link=Joan Baez |author=Baez, Joan |publisher=Commonwealth Club of California |date=6 November 1981 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926212411/http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/20thcentury/81-11baez-speech.html |archive-date=26 September 2007 }}</ref> Stationed in Chile in the 1970s, he arranged for the escape of numerous refugees from the [[military junta]] of [[Augusto Pinochet]]; this brought him into conflict with the regime, and he eventually was forced to leave the country.
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