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* Raoul Wallenberg. Who is a Swedish diplomat that was posted in Budapest, Hungary. He kept 100,000 Hungarian Jews from being deported to the death camps using naught but a printing press, typewriter ribbon, [[Xantos]] level of cunnings, sheer audacity, and sometimes, [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry|intimidation]]. While deep behind Axis lines, representing a government, who has very few cards to play, and was able to scare Nazis. A [[Real Life]] [[Ambadassador]].
** Another mention goes to an incident where a train was about to leave Budapest to a death camp. Wallenberg climbed to the top of the train, and ''all the while being shot at'', started throwing passes inside so that the Jews can use them to escape death (These passes weren't legal, but they look legit enough to fool the authorities.) After when he was certain that everyone on board has a pass, he got off, walked towards the shocked authorities, and calmly ordered everythone with a pass to step out of the train. ''And he got away with it'', simply because [[Refuge in Audacity]] in the most insane and boldest way possible.
* Chiune Sugihara. A Japanese Vice Consul in Lithuania during 1939-1940, who directly disobeyed orders in issuing thousands of exit visas for botht eh Lithuanian and Polish Jews to escape to Japan (Most of them ended up escaping to Shanghai, and Shanghai had a tiny yet decidedly incongruous Jewish population for years after the war). According to his family, Chiune spent 18-20 hours a day filling out these visas by hand. When he was finally forced to leave just before the consulate was closed, witnesses reports that even on his way from his hotel to the train station and just was when the train was just leaving, he was still filling those things out and throwing them into the crowd. Double amazingly, when one considers that the culture of the Japanese Foreign Service during this time and for him to openly defy his superiors to that huge extent was basically unprecedented for anyone working there. This also explains why he was able to get away with it: The Japanese government was so flabbergasted that one of their own (who, by all accounts, had been a very effective administrator for his whole career) had gone beyond their orders they can't rationalize it besides pretending that it didn't happen.
** This makes it more awesome was the fact that Sugihara never boasted about his accomplishments once. When an Israeli delegation came to his house to honor him for his actions (Many of them carrying visas Suihara has issued decades ago), all of his neighbors were stunned since they all thought he was just another typical Japanese salaryman.
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