Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who helped save tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, was murdered in 1947 in Moscow’s Lubyanka prison, according to the online edition of the Swedish newspaper Expressen. The report cited a letter written by a top civil servant in the office of Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson.
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