A man for all connections : Raoul Wallenberg and the Hungarian state apparatus, 1944-1945

A chronicle of Raoul Wallenberg's sojourn to Budapest documents his activities at the Swedish Legation and his rescue efforts on behalf of the Jews of Budapest. Records Wallenberg's mission designed by compassionate and desperate men in Sweden and elsewhere. Describes the little known fact that the mission was activated and sustained by various representatives of the Hungarian state apparatus whose cooperation Wallenberg regularly sought and often received. The author, one of the former hidden children in Hungary, believes that without the official and covert aid of such individuals, Wallenberg's activities would have been confined to a series of efforts with little or no success.