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Vad innehåller en ursäkt egentligen?

    Har funderat så smått över innebörden i begreppet ursäkt. Vad är det man uttrycker när man ber om ursäkt? Vad är rimligt att be om ursäkt för?

    När Albert Speer, Hitlers arkitekt och rustningsminister, efter avtjänat fängelsestraff anhöll om ett möte med anhöriga till förintelsens offer, bad han inte om ursäkt för den roll han hade spelat i Tredje riket.

    Hade han gjort det hade han säkert blivit utskrattad eller snarare uthatad.

    Nå, nu blev han det ändå. Men så pass äkta var hans skuldmedvetande att han inte framförde några ursäkter. Varje försök i den riktningen hade varit en oförskämdhet. Vissa brott är av sådan storleksordning.
    För ett år sedan bad Göran Persson å Sveriges regerings vägnar om ursäkt för sitt lands undfallenhet mot Hitler-Tyskland. Ursäkten riktade han till judarna på Förintelsekonferensen i Stockholm. Sverige var medskyldigt till den europeiska judenhetens öde. Ursäkten accepterades.
    Så pass har förintelsen abstraherats, fiktionaliserats och följaktligen krympt i eftervärldens medvetande, att ursäkter har blivit möjliga. Särskilt ursäkter framförda av människor som ingen skuld bär.


    I förra veckan var det dags igen. Göran Persson, född 1949, bad om ursäkt för vad Tage Erlanders regering gjorde 1946. Den sist nämnda offrade Raoul Wallenberg för att inte i onödan komma på kant med Stalin och stormakten öst. Ursäkten riktades till Wallenbergs familj. Hur den mottogs är mig inte bekant.

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      Google translation from russia:

      Swedish Foreign Ministry did not understand the Soviet hints about Raoul Wallenberg

      Today in Stockholm will be published so-called White Paper on the case of Raoul Wallenberg. This is the fruit of a decade of Russian and Swedish experts who have studied the circumstances of the disappearance in 1945 in Budapest, the Swedish diplomat who saved from deportation to death camps thousands of Hungarian Jews.  Over 55 years of business Wallenberg remains one of the main irritants in relations between Moscow and Stockholm.

      As announced last week the Swedish co-chairman of the joint commission, Hans Magnusson, Russian and Swedish experts have not agreed on a unified version of what happened, so each side will present its version. Russian interpretation is as follows: Raoul Wallenberg, who was arrested by Soviet troops in Hungary, was a victim of Stalinist repression and, obviously, was executed in the Lubyanka prison in July 1947. Last December, the Russian prosecutor general’s office exonerated Wallenberg. (Until 1957 the Soviet Union in general, denied that the detention Swede, then came the version that he died in prison of a heart attack in July 1947 the second.)

      In the Swedish report focuses on the fact that no conclusive evidence of Wallenberg’s death in 1947 is still there, and thus make such a conclusion impossible. In other words, the Swedes believe that there is no answer to the main question: what really happened to Wallenberg.

      Inte säkert att Raoul Wallenberg dog 1947

        Den svenske diplomaten Raoul Wallenberg fördes bort av sovetiska soldater i Budapest i andra världskrigets slutskede 1945. Sverige är ännu inte berett att acceptera att Raoul Wallenberg är död. Olika slutsatser i svensk-ryska utredningen som blev offentlig i dag.

        Göran Persson bad Wallenbergs anhöriga om ursäkt ”Vi måste fortsätta söka efter sanningen”
        Kl 10:30 Följ presskonferensen om Wallenberg-rapporten på nätet
        Spionen Stig Bergling: Raoul Wallenberg levde 1989. ”Ryssarna döljer viktiga uppgifter”
        ”Wallenberg levde inte till 80-talet”. Försvarets expert tror att dödsåret är 1947.
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        – Vi kan inte uteslutna att Raoul Wallenberg levt längre än 1947. Därför ska tre experter genomföra omfattande undersökningar i Vladimirfängelset, och undersöka om Wallenberg eventuellt isolerats under ett nummer eller annat namn. Vi kan inte dra några slutsatser, men detta måste följas upp, säger Hans Magnusson, departementsråd och svensk ordförande i arbetsgruppen... -> More

        Documents on Raoul Wallenberg made public

          The Shelves of documents, amounting to some six metres in total length, concerning Raoul Wallenberg will be made public in accordance with a decision by the Government on Thursday.

          About 60 000 pages dating from 1971 are being made public today in connection with the presentation of the reports of the Russian–Swedish inquiry about Raoul Wallenberg, which has been in progress since 1991.

          The material shows how the Swedish Government and the Foreign Service have tried to follow up every imaginable trace and suggestion over the years. The information that is still coming in shows clearly that the matter is still of current interest.

          Guy von Dardel’s introduction to the report of the Independent consultants

            This month the Swedish Foreign Office (UD), will present  the final report
            of the Swedish – Russian Working Group on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg (RW)”
            about its ten year long investigation. In addition, the four independent
            experts to the Commission, will issue separate reports on their findings
            based on thorough examination of Russian archives, in particular those of
            the Vladimir prison. These investigations cover a period of about 10 years
            since the beginning of the Working Group.

            There is however a prehistory, stretching back to 1945 when RW was arrested
            by Soviet troops in Hungary, and started a long and obscure transit through
            Soviet prisons and camps.

            While in the beginning the Swedish Foreign Office  carried the main burden
            for the efforts to clarify RW:s fate, it soon became apparent that their
            efforts had to be supplemented by independent investigations and pressure on
            the Soviet Union. In the first place, I should mention Raoul ‘s and my
            mother, Maj von Dardel, as well as my father, Frederik von Dardel, his
            stepfather, who until their deaths in 1979 carried the heavy burden of
            ensuring that everything was done to solve RW:s fate. They were helped by
            many ardent collaborators, such as the Czech author Rudolph Philipp who
            wrote the first Swedish book about RW:s achievements and was the first to
            claim that RW:s later fate was far from certain; and Birgitta Bellander who
            organised a joint committee of the major Swedish RW movements. This
            initiative, outside of the UD, later evolved into the Swedish RW-Committee,
            which for a long time was headed by Sonja Sonnenfeldt.

            PGO rehabilitated Raoul Wallenberg, who was killed in the dungeons of the NKVD

              Google translation from russia:

              Attorney-General has decided to rehabilitate the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and his driver Vilmos Langfeldera. This RIA Novosti reported in the Office of Information and Public Relations Prosecutor General’s Office.
              After verification, prosecutors concluded that the two Swedes “were repressed by Soviet authorities for political reasons.” In this regard, they are subject to a Federal Law “On Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression on Oct. 18, 1991.

              Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by Stalin’s regime during the Second World War. He worked at the Swedish embassy in Budapest. Using diplomatic status, Wallenberg saved the Nazi-occupied Hungary, Jews who were sent to concentration camps. He gave them Swedish passports, hiding them in the imaginary Swedish missions, bribed and intimidated the occupation authorities.

              Last colleagues saw Raoul Wallenberg 17 January 1945, when he went to meet with the commander of Soviet troops in Budapest. Initially, the Soviet Foreign Ministry claimed that Wallenberg is under the protection of Soviet troops. Then, in a personal note, Ambassador of Sweden, on August 18, 1947 reported the death of Wallenberg in Budapest during the battle for the city.

              In 1991 he established the Russian-Swedish commission of inquiry into the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg.