Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
An investigation into the life and mysterious fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who risked everything to save thousands of Jews from certain death in the final days of World War II, only to t…
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
An investigation into the life and mysterious fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who risked everything to save thousands of Jews from certain death in the final days of World War II, only to then vanish into Russian prison forever. In the final months of World War II, diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, scion of Sweden's powerful Wallenberg dynasty, led a clandestine mission, underwritten by The United States, to rescue the Jews of Budapest, the last surviving Jewish community in Nazi occupied Europe. Taking extraordinary measures and at grave personal risk, Wallenberg saved as many as 100,000 lives. When Russia "liberated" Budapest in January 1945, Raoul's triumph turned to tragedy, arrested by Russian intelligence, vanished into Moscow's infamous KGB prison system, Wallenberg was never to be seen again. A desperate search by his family ensued, captivating the global media, mobilizing American Presidents and sparking some seventy years of intrigue, heartache and dead-end results...until now. "Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction" explores the motivations of an unlikely hero, exposes fact from fiction, and for the first time, reveals the chilling fate of a man who saved a generation, but tragically could not be saved himself.
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
Biography,Crime,Documentary
Film Details
An investigation into the life and mysterious fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who risked everything to save thousands of Jews from certain death in the final days of World War II, only to then vanish into Russian prison forever. In the final months of World War II, diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, scion of Sweden's powerful Wallenberg dynasty, led a clandestine mission, underwritten by The United States, to rescue the Jews of Budapest, the last surviving Jewish community in Nazi occupied Europe. Taking extraordinary measures and at grave personal risk, Wallenberg saved as many as 100,000 lives.
When Russia "liberated" Budapest in January 1945, Raoul's triumph turned to tragedy, arrested by Russian intelligence, vanished into Moscow's infamous KGB prison system, Wallenberg was never to be seen again. A desperate search by his family ensued, captivating the global media, mobilizing American Presidents and sparking some seventy years of intrigue, heartache and dead-end results...until now. "Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction" explores the motivations of an unlikely hero, exposes fact from fiction, and for the first time, reveals the chilling fate of a man who saved a generation, but tragically could not be saved himself..