Swedish Prime Minister Kristersson must allow access to information on Wallenberg case - opinion

January 17 marked the 80th anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg’s disappearance in the Soviet Union. After eight decades, the central questions in the Wallenberg case remain unanswered: What exactly happened to him after his trail broke off in Moscow in the spring of 1947? And why was the Swedish government’s passivity in the case so extreme?

We now know that Swedish officials consciously abandoned Wallenberg almost immediately after he disappeared in January 1945, a decision that had serious consequences for Sweden’s official handling of the case.

Despite document destruction and other forms of censorship, it is clear that highly relevant information remains available in both Russian and Swedish archives. Unfortunately, over the years, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has instead signaled that it is primarily interested in removing the issue from the Swedish-Russian agenda. This theme has run like a red thread through the Wallenber...
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