Norbert Masur (Mazur) (13 May 1901 – 10 July 1971) was a representative of Sweden to the World Jewish Congress (WJC).
The WJC was founded in Geneva in 1936 to unite the Jewish people and to mobilise the world against the Nazis.
[1] In the closing days of the war, when Berlin was cut off from the rest of Germany, almost entirely surrounded by Allied forces, and when the Red Army was just entering the outskirts of the city from the south and east, Masur was flown from Sweden to an extraordinary secret meeting with Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, ostensibly to discuss the preservation of the Jews who were still alive in the Nazi camps.
With the help of Himmler's osteopath, Felix Kersten, on 19 April 1945 the Swedish section of the WJC arranged for Masur to fly from Stockholm to Tempelhof Airport in central Berlin.
If I had had my own way, many things would have been done differently..."[3] Antony Beevor says that Himmler's purpose at this meeting was to establish a line of communications with the Western Allies, primarily via the head of the Swedish Red Cross, Folke Bernadotte, who was in Berlin at the same time.