Russia 'intentionally withheld' information on Raoul Wallenberg
Russia has been accused of intentionally withholding information on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust before his arrest by the Soviet Union in 1945.
The accusation was made after new material surfaced detailing the interrogation of Willy Rodel, a German POW who once shared a cell with Wallenberg, whose fate has become one of the most enduring mysteries of the Second World War, in a Moscow prison.
Susanne Berger, a historian from Swedish-Russian group tasked with determining what happened to Wallenberg, said that although Rodel makes no mention of the Swede in the published documents the papers come from an intelligence file that the FSB, the successor of the KGB, had always denied having, and that it is almost certain that other papers in the file contain information on Wallenberg.
Moscow once said Wallenberg died of a heart attack in 1947, but then later claimed he had been executed. But many former prisoners claim to have met Wallenberg, or seen a man believed to be him, alive and well up until the 1980s.
Ms Berger added that the new material could mean that there is still vital information in the Russian archives on Wallenberg that could shed light on his fate....