What happened with Allied ambassadors in German occupied countries? For example with the British ambassadors in countries like Denmark, Netherlands or Norway? How treated them the Germans?
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I believe under the rules of war they were interned and then returned to countries at some point. I don’t know if they were swapped for other personnel though. That did happen at the beginning of the war but after that, the Allies generally didn’t have German diplomats to hand back over to Germany. I don’t know of any case where the Germans broke diplomatic immunity, though I know the Soviets did disappear a Swedish diplomat in Hungary in 1945 whose name I cannot recall which I’m ashamed of because he’s one of the greatest badasses of the war for all the Jewish lives he saved in Budapest.
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You refer to Raoul Wallenberg. Believe he’s one of only three foreign nationals to be given honorary US citizenship [the other two being Lafayette and Churchill].
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Raoul Wallenberg. There’s a biography entitled Lost Hero.