Adolf Eichnann. Wallenberg printed Swedish passports and distributed these passports to thousands of potential victims. He repeatedly risked his own life by following the death marches. as he distributed passports. and he went daily to the deportation trains where he literally pulled people out of the clutches of the SS. He purchased and rented scores of houses throughout Budapest. equipped them with Swedish flags and protected the Jewish residents from the brutal onslaught of the SS and the local Fascist movement. the Arrow Cross. When the Red army occupied Budapest. they arrested Wallenberg on the mistaken assumption that he was an American spy. because he was indirectly working for the U.S.
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