In 1986, four years after his tenure as the UN Secretary General, Kurt Waldheim made a bid to lead his native Austria. Shultz did not agree and got angry, so he threw us out of his office. A ntonio Guterres, the ninth secretary general of the United Nations, is good at bleating globalist platitudes but has a past that appears free of controversy.That was not the case with the fourth U.N. secretary general, Kurt Waldheim. Updates? Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. Fred played Kurt Waldheim, Jr. Great stuff. Kurt Waldheim dies at 88; ex-UN chief hid Nazi past Kurt Waldheim, the former UN secretary general and president of Austria whose hidden complicity in Nazi war crimes was exposed late in his career, died Thursday in Vienna, Austrian media reported. Waldheims precise involvement in these brutalities would be a matter of debate and investigation for years to come. They would pull in some 70- or 80-year-old man and tell him he had two choices: He could go on trial and face the likely possibility of spending the rest of his life in jail, or he could renounce his U.S. citizenship and be deported to Austria. China was determined to unseat him this time and lined up a strong candidate in Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania. 1. Hes also a sign of Mexicos healthcare crisis, Bola Tinubu, the declared winner of Nigerias presidential election, appeals for unity, A 5,000-year-old restaurant highlights Iraqs archaeological renaissance, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, 19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff, Fiery Greece train collision kills 32, injures at least 85, Column: Supreme Court conservatives may want to block student loan forgiveness. When I was in Vienna, Waldheim was Political Director of the Foreign Ministry. The United States became the third country granted access to the file. Also present was Luis Durnwalder, governor of the Italian province of South Tyrol. share. Himself / Kurt Waldheim Jr. Petey Greene's Washington: 1981: TV Series: Himself: Archive Footage . Negligee and Underpants Party: Directed by Jim Fitzgerald, Wendy Scatloni, Brad Mays. Four years after returning from New York to Austria, Waldheim was hot on the campaign trail, all but certain of an . D uring Kurt Waldheim's Austrian presidential campaign in the spring of 1986, that nation's collective consciousness experienced a painful return of the repressed, a psychological agony . Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. So even if they were Romanians or Yugoslavs, if they emigrated to the U.S. from Austria they could be deported back to Austria. [57] On 23 June, his funeral was held at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, and he was buried at the Presidential Vault in the Zentralfriedhof ("central cemetery"). Waldheim resoundingly defeated Echeverra in the first round of voting. 5), page 188. So decisions were made then in the light of the necessities at the time and were perfectly legitimate, I think. [16], Waldheim denied that he knew war crimes were taking place in Bosnia at the height of the battles between the Nazis and Tito's partisans in 1943. He served as First Secretary of the Legation in Paris from 1948, and in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Vienna from 1951 to 1956. New U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Vienna and met with Waldheim in February; Bans aides hastened to characterize the visit as private and personal.. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. The Austrian government, hoping to put the matter to rest, appointed a special historical commission to review the evidence against Waldheim. Kurt Josef Waldheim (Sankt Andr-Wrdern, 21 dcembre 1918 - Vienne, 14 juin 2007) . He was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. [60] In a two-page letter, published posthumously by the Austrian Press Agency the day after he died, Waldheim admitted making "mistakes" ("but these were certainly not those of a follower let alone an accomplice of a criminal regime") and asked his critics for forgiveness.[61]. Shortly before his birth the Habsburg monarchy had collapsed, and his father, whose Czech family had been called Watzlawick . On the other hand, I never saw any evidence, and I saw a lot of the files and so on, that would classify him as a war criminal. I remember one guy who had been in the Gestapo, and we had records that showed that he had been an interrogator at an American POW camp. Theres no doubt about that. A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II . [47] The committee also noted that "he only had very minor possibilities to act against the injustices happening". [Waldheim] was banned from the United States for his whole term of office, and because he wasnt allowed into the United States, most other major countries did not invite him for official visits. In early 1941, Waldheim was drafted into the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, specifically to the Heer (Army), and posted to the Eastern Front where he served as a squad leader. Theres an office in the Justice Department, the Office of Special Investigations, which is dedicated to uncovering former Nazis. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith surnamed Vaclavik. Anyone can read what you share. During his campaign to become President of Austria, the Social Democrat opposition made charges about his activities during the war. Welfia Klosterneuburg, a Roman Catholic student fraternity part of the Austrian Cartellverband. With Howard Stern, Dominic Barbara, Richard Belzer, Downtown Julie Brown. Kurt Waldheim, who was president of Austria from 1986 to 1992, systematically lied about his wartime past. Entire villages were wiped out by Lohrs men. Austria was also getting something of a free pass from the Allies, who excused it from the payment of reparations and other punishments meted out to Germany. The craft were also inscribed with a written message from then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter. He did lie about his military service. Hnt syytettiin osallisuudesta murhaan sek salaliittoon ja sieppaukseen, joiden . He was 88. We wanted the information and we did not want it to fall into the hands of the Soviets. I was listening to an Audiobook recently, specifically the book KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann. Its report in 1988 concluded that he repeatedly went along with [the Nazis] unlawful acts, thereby facilitated their execution and did nothing to prevent them. In his 1985 autobiography, he claimed that he was discharged from further service at the front and, for the remainder of the war, finished his law degree at the University of Vienna, in addition to marrying in 1944. The World Jewish Congress was particularly active in pushing this, and Secretary [of State George] Shultz had absolutely no sympathy for Waldheim himself. Waldheim admitted that he had not been candid about his past but disclaimed all knowledge of or participation in wartime atrocities. Waldheim was born in Sankt Andr-Wrdern, near Vienna, on 21 December 1918. The Austrian had been a member of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, which provided military protection for the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as . The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith . Waldheim during a press conference at the, Waldheim's voice recording on the Voyager Golden Record, Report of the International Historical Commission of 8 February 1988, section on "Membership in National Socialist Organizations", as cited, e.g., in, Israeli-Ugandan Relations in the Time of Idi Amin by. I dont think any other major country received him. He probably signed some papers that had to do with deportations and so on. Then they would give the person a travel document that was just good until he got to Austria, and put the person on a direct flight to Austria. Kurt Josef Waldheim, fdd 21 december 1918 i Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Niedersterreich, dd 14 juni 2007 i Wien, var en sterrikisk politiker och diplomat. Political career. Kurt Waldheim: distinguished diplomat who fell from grace. There was testimony that he had roughed up some of the POWs. Waldheim je bil generalni sekretar OZN (1972-1981) in predsednik Avstrije (1986-1992). La yaro 1918 (MCMXVIII per Romala algarismi) esis ordinara yaro komencinta ye mardio segun Gregoriala kalendario, ed ordinara yaro komencinta ye lundio segun Juliala kalendario.Ol esis la 918ma yaro di la duesma yarmilo, la 18ma yaro di la 20ma yarcento, e la 9ma yaro di la yari 1910a.Kande 1918 komencis, Gregoriala kalendario esis 13 dii avan Juliala kalendario, qua duris uzesar en kelka loki . Sound, Fury, Brilliance & Booze: Faulkner in Post-War Japan, Protecting Greenland: The American Consulate at Godthab, 1940-42, Raymond Hare: Our Man in Cairo during WWII. Some Germans had stayed in Austria partly because they thought that the Occupation, which was not called Occupation, would be less rigorous and less de-Nazifying than it was in Germany. [27] Outgoing Mexican President Luis Echeverra finally entered the race in October 1976, making Waldheim the only Secretary-General to face a contested re-selection campaign. Kurt Waldheim, the former UN secretary general and president of Austria whose hidden complicity in Nazi war crimes was exposed late in his career, died Thursday in Vienna, Austrian media reported. Donald Trump Jr. claims US train network is being sabotaged as revenge for Nord Stream 2 after derailments in Ohio and Michigan . He was secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-81) and . Waldheim published an autobiography. His intelligence regarding work in Greece during World War II raised more questions than answers. William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. Waldheim was a member of the Austrian People's Party, a World War II Veteran and . But for most of the world, Waldheim was ruined and discredited. 450. Other pieces of evidence included logs and intelligence reports, purportedly bearing his signature, describing mass deportations of Greek Jews to death camps. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Javier Prez de Cullar of Peru won the selection and succeeded Waldheim as Secretary-General of the United Nations. At the end of the War we issued visas to German scientists who were Nazis and to Nazi intelligence officers as well. In December, he was wounded but returned to service in 1942. In those days, before the taint of scandal, Waldheim was often called the dapper diplomat. Accompanied by his vivacious wife, the former Elisabeth Ritschl, he was the epitome of Old World aristocratic style, a gallant gentleman in bespoke suits who kissed womens hands, starred on the cocktail-and-banquet circuit and oozed obsequious charm. "His very ordinariness, in fact, may be the most important thing about him. The sources, who spoke on . M. Kurt Waldheim a entam son deuxime mandat de cinq ans en tant que . Kurt's father, Walter, migrated to Austria where Christian-Social Party (CSP) activism landed him the plum-gig of school inspector. An international investigation by a committee of historians cleared Waldheim of complicity in war crimes, but as president he was a rather isolated figure on the international scene. Nearly a decade later, he brought himself to accept that lying about his past was wrong. Song, Little Ricky 8/14/86 Susan Berkley, Cindi Lauper Record, Phila. The law was meant to keep out former Nazis, especially people who lied about their past in obtaining a visa and especially anybody who was connected with the concentration camps and other atrocities. [59] [52], Additional allegations of participation in Nazi crimes, with citations to captured Nazi documents and other records, were leveled in a 1993 book by Eli Rosenbaum, the former U.S. federal prosecutor who had directed the World Jewish Congress investigation that led to the New York Times' initial exposure of Waldheim's hidden Nazi-era past in 1986. On 19 August 1944, he married Elisabeth Ritschel in Vienna; their first daughter, Lieselotte, was born the following year. His candidacy became controversial, however, with the dissemination of wartime and postwar documents that pointed to his having been an interpreter and intelligence officer for a German army unit that engaged in brutal reprisals against Yugoslav Partisans and civilians and deported most of the Jewish population of Salonika (Thessalonki), Greece, to Nazi death camps in 1943. The ex-concentration guard would then show up on the Austrians doorstep. But what could I do? [20] According to Finnish diplomat Risto Hyvrinen, Waldheim's former Nazi connections were already known to the Finnish officials who supported Max Jakobson for Secretary-General in the election. Israeli ambassador Yehuda Zvi Blum denied the charges, saying, "We don't believe Waldheim ever supported the Nazis and we never said he did. "[25], After Operation Entebbe on 7 July 1976 in which Israeli commandos freed more than 100 Israeli and Jewish passengers held captive in Entebbe Airport (Uganda's main airport) by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and German Revolutionary Cells fighters protected by forces of dictator Idi Amin, and where all the hijackers, three hostages, and 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed Waldheim described the raid as a "serious violation of the national sovereignty of a United Nations member state". Earlier this week, it was examined by the Israeli and Austrian ambassadors. Kurt Waldheim, avstrijski astnik, pravnik, diplomat in politik, * 21. december 1918, Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Spodnja Avstrija, 14. junij 2007, Dunaj. They identified with his attempts to deny complicity with the Nazis and to view himself as a citizen of a nation occupied by German invaders and forced into their military service. Yet no government pressed to bring Waldheim to account or even to reveal his unsavory history. Austria had continued to portray itself as a victim of the Third Reich, rather than its collaborator, long after Germany was paying reparations and banning neo-Nazi groups. Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. In the first round of voting, Waldheim lost to Salim by one vote. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Austria refused to pay compensation to victims of Nazism, and from 1970 onwards refused to investigate Austrian citizens who were senior Nazis. Sternalso the former host of popular radio skit "Guess Who's the Jew" with perennial champ "Kurt Waldheim Jr.," played by longtime Stern show member Fred Norristook particular . As secretary general, Waldheim was often criticized - by governments in the West, East and the third world - as ineffectual and overly cautious in his attempts to find solutions to the many conflicts erupting around the globe. Kurt Josef Waldheim ; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Consequently, he chose not to run for a second term in 1992. See 4 March 1986 WABC-TV news report (New York City) on the worldwide exposure that day of Waldheim's Nazi past, at: See WNBC-TV (New York City) 23 March 1986 news report on the World Jewish Congress's revelation of the U.N. War Crimes Commission inclusion of Waldheim on the UNWCC wanted list at: Zuroff, Efraim (April 2002) "Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals, 20012002," Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem. From his youth, Waldheim was distinguished by his unusual height of 1.92m (6ft 4in). In 1956 he was made Ambassador to Canada, returning to the Ministry in 1960, after which he became the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations in 1964. To deduce that knowledge constitutes some kind of crime is simply not correct, he told an Austrian television interviewer. Kurt Waldheim - Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. [40] Nevertheless, he admitted that he had known about German reprisals: "Yes, I knew. Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian-born lawyer, soldier, politician, and envoy who served as the 4 th Secretary-General of the UN and the 9 th President of Austria. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia as an . That claim was repeated in two autobiographies and routinely to journalists. This became the "Waldheim Affair" which was important in exposing the criminal role . Im happy Im not an intellectual ball of fire, Waldheim told reporters who gathered in his opulently appointed Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan when he was first elected to head the U.N. I dont think you can solve the U.N.'s problems that way. He apparently gained the sympathy of the Austrian electorate and won the presidency with 54% of the vote. [22] His diplomatic efforts particularly in the Middle East were overshadowed by the diplomacy of then U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. report. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, What time is it on the moon? Waldheim had risen to the pinnacle of international diplomacy and was running for president of Austria when his past caught up with him. 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