Wallenberg Is Here! The True Story About How Raoul Wallenberg Faced Down the Nazi War Machine & the Infamous Eichmann & Saved Tens of Thousands of Budapest Jews

In March 1944, SS Colonel Adolph Eichmann arrived in Budapest, Hungary, with his SS troops and the German Army, under orders to exterminate the last remaining Jewish community in Europe. Under dubious cover as a Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest in July 1944. His mission: stop the Nazi slaughter of Jews. Eichmann dismissed Wallenberg as "another weak-kneed aristocrat playboy," later finding out just how resourceful and brave Wallenberg could be, setting the stage for the dramatic if unequal confrontation the unarmed Swede, assisted by some Swedish colleagues, versus Colonel Eichmann, backed by the might of the SS, the Gestapo and several German panzer divisions. Wallenberg rescued Jews using knowledge of the Nazi psyche, and his artistic talents, language skills and acting ability. Wallenberg could imitate the most authoritative Prussian general, often facing down the SS and Hungarian Nazis. He plucked Jews from the jaws of certain death and deposited them in Swedish safe houses. Wallenberg's Aryan-looking Jews, in SS garb, rescued Jews from orphanages, hospitals and streets. Even as the Soviet Army advanced on Budapest, Colonel Eichmann ordered the Army to annihilate the Jews, leading Wallenberg, with breathtaking audacity, to a climactic confrontation with the German Army commander.… (more)