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By : Attila Lajos

The questions that arose from the current state of research and the theory initially propounded have been posed to identify and apply the concepts of Hero and Victims to Rahul Wallenberg and the Jews of Budapest. The first set of questions concerned the “hero”: How and why was Wallenberg given his mission in Budapest? What role did he himself play in this selection process? To what degree did the power structures that existed in Budapest work for or against him? To what degree did he act in concert with or against the wishes of the social, political and military power structures in Budapest after his arrival there on July 9, 1944? To what extent and in which ways did he act under adverse conditions when these structures turned against him? Did he follow certain uncompromising moral demands which he made on himself? Did he never give up? Did he ever find himself in situations which required heroic interventions of the nature of those mentioned above? Can the way in which he acted be reconciled with the model of the hero initially propounded, or is the figure of the hero a reconstruction after the event that can not be directly deduced from his actions?