Wallenberg: Man and Myth
Wallenberg: Man and Myth

Summary/Abstract: Attila Lajos, Hjälten och offren. Raoul Wallenberg och judarna i Budapest (The Hero and the Victims. Raoul Wallenberg and the Jews in Budapest). Växjö, Svenska Emigrantinstitutets skriftserie, 2004, 315 pp. What was Raoul Wallenberg’s fate after he was taken into Soviet custody in Budapest in January 1945? During the last decade, a Russian-Swedish committee tried to find new archive material that could shed new light on the case. The final report, however, was anything but satisfactory: among the questions that remained unanswered were why Wallenberg had been arrested, who had ordered the arrest, why he remained in Soviet custody after the war and why important KGB-documents had been destroyed.[...]

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