Your Excellencies, I am aware that the Swedish government has a long history of investigating Raoul Wallenberg’s fate, as is evident from the information available on the Swedish Governmental website In addition to this information, I would like to please…
Historic truth is undoubtedly a most elusive substance and all historians face difficult choices. But authorized biographies carry an enhanced risk of avoidance and outright self-censorship. The biographies of Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, written by two leading Swedish scholars – Håkan Lindgren and Ulf Olsson – , are no exception; in particular, with respect to one of the most controversial subjects in Wallenberg family history, the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg in the Soviet Union in 1945.