Whose Raoul Wallenberg is it? The Man and the Myth: Between Memory, History and Popularity

Raoul Wallenberg is widely remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews in Budapest at the end of World War II, and is known as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. While he successfully combated Nazi racial extermination politics, he fell v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tanja Schult
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2010-12-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.10241769