(New York Times) Neil MacFarquhar - The 1945 disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg - a Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi gas chambers - ranks among the most enduring mysteries of World War II. Newly published diaries of the original head of the KGB, Ivan A. Serov, stated outright for the first time that Wallenberg was executed in a Moscow prison in 1947. The order to "liquidate" Wallenberg had come from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
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