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Documents on Raoul Wallenberg made public

    The Shelves of documents, amounting to some six metres in total length, concerning Raoul Wallenberg will be made public in accordance with a decision by the Government on Thursday.

    About 60 000 pages dating from 1971 are being made public today in connection with the presentation of the reports of the Russian–Swedish inquiry about Raoul Wallenberg, which has been in progress since 1991.

    The material shows how the Swedish Government and the Foreign Service have tried to follow up every imaginable trace and suggestion over the years. The information that is still coming in shows clearly that the matter is still of current interest.

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    Guy von Dardel’s introduction to the report of the Independent consultants

      This month the Swedish Foreign Office (UD), will present  the final report
      of the Swedish – Russian Working Group on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg (RW)”
      about its ten year long investigation. In addition, the four independent
      experts to the Commission, will issue separate reports on their findings
      based on thorough examination of Russian archives, in particular those of
      the Vladimir prison. These investigations cover a period of about 10 years
      since the beginning of the Working Group.

      There is however a prehistory, stretching back to 1945 when RW was arrested
      by Soviet troops in Hungary, and started a long and obscure transit through
      Soviet prisons and camps.

      While in the beginning the Swedish Foreign Office  carried the main burden
      for the efforts to clarify RW:s fate, it soon became apparent that their
      efforts had to be supplemented by independent investigations and pressure on
      the Soviet Union. In the first place, I should mention Raoul ‘s and my
      mother, Maj von Dardel, as well as my father, Frederik von Dardel, his
      stepfather, who until their deaths in 1979 carried the heavy burden of
      ensuring that everything was done to solve RW:s fate. They were helped by
      many ardent collaborators, such as the Czech author Rudolph Philipp who
      wrote the first Swedish book about RW:s achievements and was the first to
      claim that RW:s later fate was far from certain; and Birgitta Bellander who
      organised a joint committee of the major Swedish RW movements. This
      initiative, outside of the UD, later evolved into the Swedish RW-Committee,
      which for a long time was headed by Sonja Sonnenfeldt.

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      PGO rehabilitated Raoul Wallenberg, who was killed in the dungeons of the NKVD

        Google translation from russia:

        Attorney-General has decided to rehabilitate the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and his driver Vilmos Langfeldera. This RIA Novosti reported in the Office of Information and Public Relations Prosecutor General’s Office.
        After verification, prosecutors concluded that the two Swedes “were repressed by Soviet authorities for political reasons.” In this regard, they are subject to a Federal Law “On Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression on Oct. 18, 1991.

        Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by Stalin’s regime during the Second World War. He worked at the Swedish embassy in Budapest. Using diplomatic status, Wallenberg saved the Nazi-occupied Hungary, Jews who were sent to concentration camps. He gave them Swedish passports, hiding them in the imaginary Swedish missions, bribed and intimidated the occupation authorities.

        Last colleagues saw Raoul Wallenberg 17 January 1945, when he went to meet with the commander of Soviet troops in Budapest. Initially, the Soviet Foreign Ministry claimed that Wallenberg is under the protection of Soviet troops. Then, in a personal note, Ambassador of Sweden, on August 18, 1947 reported the death of Wallenberg in Budapest during the battle for the city.

        In 1991 he established the Russian-Swedish commission of inquiry into the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg.

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        Marvin Makinen and Ari Kaplan report 2000

            In the following report prepared on the basis of our analysis of prisoner registration cards in the kartoteka of the Vladimir Prison No. 2, we have generally used the full name and year of birth at the first mention of any prisoner for full identification according to general Russian custom to facilitate follow-up investigations by others who may wish to carry this analysis further. Subsequent mention of the prisoner in the text is thereafter restricted generally to use only of the family name.

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          Raoul Wallenberg was shot in the Lubyanka

            Google translation from russia:
            Chairman of the Presidential Commission for Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression Academician Alexander Yakovlev believes that repressed by Stalin’s regime during the Second World War, a Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg will be rehabilitated by the decree of Vladimir Putin in the near future.
            It is officially confirmed that his committee has a decision this fall about the necessity of rehabilitation Wallenberg as victims of political repression. ” “After that I immediately sent a letter to the Prosecutor General’s Office and told of our decision to the president,” – said Yakovlev told Interfax on Monday.

            “We must finally put an end to this story, which became sharp international and long poisoned the atmosphere”, – said Yakovlev. According to him, despite the fact that Wallenberg had been convicted by a court for political reasons, the legislation allows the RF to rehabilitate him as a victim of political repression.

            According to Yakovlev, the Soviet authorities in the history of the Swedish diplomat who served during the Second World War, the Swedish embassy in Budapest and, using diplomatic status, saved the Nazi-occupied Hungary’s Jews, “finally entangled in lies.”

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