Historian Tom Gallagher argues that Branquinho's case has been largely overlooked probably owing to the fact that he was coordinating his actions with Salazar and that weakens the core argument in the Sousa Mendes legend that he was defying a tyrannical superior. Gallagher argues that the disproportionate attention given to Sousa Mendes suggests that wartime history is in danger of being used in contemporary Portugal as a political weapon. Other Portuguese diplomats that saved people during the war Carlos Sampaio Garrido Aristides de Sousa Mendes Pedro Teotónio Pereira References Sources 1902 births 1973 deaths People from Viseu Portuguese diplomats Portuguese Roman Catholics