Göran von Otter

Baron Göran Fredrik von Otter (4 August 1907 – 4 December 1988) was a Swedish diplomat and friherre, best known for his service in Berlin during World War II.

[1] On the night between the 22 and 23 August 1942,[2] Göran von Otter met Kurt Gerstein in a train from Warsaw to Berlin.

One day earlier, Gerstein had witnessed several hundred Jewish victims being murdered in the gas chambers at Bełżec extermination camp.

After the war, von Otter wrote about the encounter that Gerstein gave him a detailed report of what had happened at Belzec, seemed very disturbed by it and implored him to transmit this information to the Swedish authorities.

This, combined with his inability to persuade those in the Swedish Foreign Ministry of the initial incident, contributed greatly to the depression he struggled with late in his life.