Editing The Scarlet Pimpernel (section)

===Raoul Wallenberg===
[[Raoul Wallenberg]], a Swedish diplomat, was directly inspired by ''[["Pimpernel" Smith]]'', a 1941 British anti-Nazi propaganda thriller, to begin rescuing [[History of the Jews in Hungary|Hungarian Jews]] during World War II.<ref name=YV>{{cite web |url=http://www1.yadvashem.org/search/index_search.html |title=Yad Vashem database |quote= who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest during World War II ... and put some 15,000 Jews into 32 safe houses. |access-date=12 February 2007 |publisher = [[Yad Vashem]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070207032351/http://www1.yadvashem.org/search/index_search.html |archive-date = 7 February 2007}}</ref> The film had been banned in Sweden, but Wallenberg and his sister Nina were invited to a private screening at the [[Embassy of the United Kingdom, Stockholm|British Embassy in Stockholm]]. Enthralled by Professor Smith (played by [[Leslie Howard]]), who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis, Nina stated, "We thought the film was amazing. When we got up from our seats, Raoul said, 'that is the kind of thing I would like to do{{'"}}.<ref>Furlong, Ray. [http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/press/wallenberg-family-mark-centenary-with-plea-for-truth/ "Wallenberg family mark centenary with plea for truth."] BBC, 8 August 2012. Retrieved: 31 January 2021.</ref> Wallenberg issued false passports identifying the Jews as Swedish nationals, and is credited with rescuing at least 15,000 Jews. He disappeared in Eastern Europe after the war, and is believed to have died in a Soviet prison camp.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Linnéa, Sharon |title=Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death |publisher=Jewish Publication Society of America |date=1 May 1994 |isbn=978-0827604483}}</ref>