Soviets Give Sweden Files on Wallenberg
The Soviet Union gave Sweden about 70 secret documents Wednesday on the case of missing Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
The documents were presented in Moscow to Ambassador Orjan Berner by outgoing Soviet Foreign Minister Boris D. Pankin.
Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps, disappeared after Soviet troops entered Budapest in the last days of World War II. The Soviets, who apparently thought he was a spy, said that he died of a heart attack in a Moscow prison in 1947. But other prisoners reported seeing Wallenberg years later.
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