Constantly in danger. the target of Nazi death plots. Wallenberg distributed tens of thousands of Swedish passports to Hungarian Jews. In the final days of the war. as Eichmann raced to complete the "Final Solution" before Allied victory. travel documents issued by neutral countries were tickets to life: Holders of Swedish passports could not be deported to German death camps. Wallenberg personally faced down Nazi SS troopers. members of the Hungarian Fascist Red Arrow gangs. and Soviet Red army troops in carrying out his mission. Working on behalf of the Roosevelt administrations War Refugee Board and the Swedish Government. Wallenberg was hated and feared by Nazis and Soviet Communists alike. Those who owe their lives to Wallenberg have never forgotten him.
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