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Raoul Wallenberg in 10 Minutes
In the summer of 1944, as the Nazi machinery reached its final, most frantic stage of extermination in Hungary, a young Swedish diplomat arrived in Budapest with nothing but a neutral passport, a bottomless supply of courage, and a plan to outwit the SS. Raoul Wallenberg transformed the Swedish Legation into a lifeline, issuing thousands of "protective passports" (Schutz-Pass) to Jews, purchasing "safe houses" that operated under diplomatic immunity, and famously leaping onto deportation trains to distribute documents to prisoners through the slats of cattle cars. By the time the Soviets…
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