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Harald Edelstam



Harald Edelstam (1913–1989) was a Swedish diplomat. During World War II he earned the nickname Svarta nejlikan ("the Black Pimpernel," a reference to The Scarlet Pimpernel) for helping Norwegian resistance fighters in Hjemmefronten escape from the Germans.



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