He physically pulled men. women. and children out of "death marches" to Austrian concentration camps and defied the warnings of Adolph Eichmann who was maniacally determined to carry out the "Final Solution" in Budapest even against the orders of his superiors. Ironically. it was not the Nazis that Wallenberg had to fear. but the Russians who marched into Hungary on Christmas Eve of 1944. The Russians became suspicious of Wallenbergs motives. They could not accept that a nonJew of a prestigious banking family would take such tremendous risks on behalf of Hungarian Jews and suspected that his ties to the American War Refugee Board went deeper than a bankrolling of Walenbergs efforts. Three weeks after the Russians took control of Budapest. Wallenberg was summoned to Debrecen. where the Russian central command was located.