Summer residence of UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld, Backåkra, Sweden Artist: Torkel Lindeberg

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Summer residence of UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld, Backåkra, Sweden. Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) was General Secretary of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in a plane crash in 1961. The house in Backåkra, a small fishing village in Ystad, southern Sweden, in which Hammarskjöld spent his summers, has been turned into a museum devoted to his tenure as General Secretary.

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Size: 4720px × 3672px
Location: World,Europe,Sweden,World,Europe,Sweden,Skåne,Ystad
Photo credit: © Torkel Lindeberg/Historisk Bildbyrå/Mustang media/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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