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Events from the year1945 inSweden
Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945) was a Swedish architect, businessman,diplomat, andhumanitarian. He saved thousands ofJews inGerman-occupied Hungary duringthe Holocaust from GermanNazis andHungarian fascists during the later stages ofWorld War II. While serving as Sweden'sspecial envoy inBudapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings which hedeclared as Swedish territory. However On 17 January 1945, during theSiege of Budapest by theRed Army, agents ofSMERSH detained Wallenberg on suspicion ofespionage, and he subsequentlydisappeared. In 1957, 12 years after his disappearance, he was reported by Soviet authorities to have died of a suspectedmyocardial infarction
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