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Uttalande av Utrikesminister Laila Freivalds med anledning av 60-årsdagen av Raoul Wallenbergs arrestering

    Uttalande
    Utrikesdepartementet 17 januari 2005

    Laila Freivalds, Utrikesminister

    Sextio år har idag förflutit sedan den dag, den 17 januari 1945, då Raoul Wallenberg arresterades.

    Redan under vårvintern 1944 hade de första provisoriska passen utfärdats av den svenska legationen i Budapest under ledning av Ivan Danielsson och Per Anger. Med Raoul Wallenbergs ankomst till Budapest i juli 1944 intensifierades de svenska räddningsaktionerna.

    Exakt hur många judar som kunde räddas undan Förintelsen tack vare den svenska legationens och Raoul Wallenbergs insatser kommer vi antagligen aldrig att få veta. I ett historiskt perspektiv saknar detta dock betydelse. Viktigt att minnas är att här fanns en människa som var beredd att ägna all sin kraft åt – och till sist också fick offra sin frihet för – en stor humanitär gärning. Eller som det i några korta ord har sagts om Raoul Wallenberg: “En enda människa kan göra en skillnad”.

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    Bush – Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951

      Federal Documents

      from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003

      After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen “enemy national” relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.

      Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.

      Bush’s partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.

      The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.

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      Wallenberg diplomacy” inquiry: “A failure of Diplomacy”

        Governtment Offices of Sweden, 103 33 Stockholm, 08-405 10 00 A printout from www.sweden.gov.se

        Press release 04 March 2003

        Ministry for Foreign Affairs


        Today the Commission of inquiry into the actions of the Swedish foreign policy leadership in the Raoul Wallenberg case has presented its report “A failure of diplomacy” (UD 2001:03) to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh.

        The Commission’s assignment was to investigate and evaluate the actions of the Swedish foreign policy leadership in the Wallenberg case. Its purpose was to clarify whether the leadership of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs had taken advantage of all the opportunities that had emerged over the course of the years to shed light on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg.

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        Fler svenskar i Moskvas fångläger

          Regeringens Wallenbergutredare kräver besked om nedtystade försvinnanden:

          Minst tre hittills okända svenskar har försvunnit i fångläger i dåvarande Sovjet. Svenska myndigheter och regeringar har lämnat samtliga fall utan åtgärd. Minst fyra vittnen har träffat svenskarna, men i Sverige har försvinnandena tystats ner. Dessa uppgifter redovisas på DN Debatt av regeringens egen Wallenbergutredare Susan Ellen Mesinai…

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          A Life of Sakharov, a Champion of ‘All Free Thinkers’

            Spring Books

            By William Korey

            April 26, 2002

            In early September 1973, 35 prominent Jewish activists drafted and distributed throughout Moscow an extraordinary “open letter” in which they publicly identified themselves with physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, the Soviet Union’s leading dissident, as he faced ferocious hate-propaganda campaigns organized by the Kremlin. The letter sought to assure him of “our moral support and deep respect.” Additionally, a few days later, the leading Jewish scientist-refuseniks, including the distinguished Veniamin Levich (who would later teach at the University of Tel Aviv and at the City University of New York), joined in a statement denouncing the propaganda campaigns as “intimidation of all free thinkers and preparation of public opinion for future repression.”

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