While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II raised international controversy. He was 88. He was 88. (Croatia and Bosnia were part of Yugoslavia at the time.). Other pieces of evidence included logs and intelligence reports, purportedly bearing his signature, describing mass deportations of Greek Jews to death camps. Thu 14 Jun 2007 19.08 EDT. Waldheims initial denial of his Nazi past and obfuscation mirrored that of a nation. The book featured many different people from different countries, the narrator made the odd choice to imitate various accents of the people quoted. Following the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, his father changed the family surname to . I find it interesting that the Holocaust has become much more prominent fifty years after the War than it was 20 years after the War, or even right after the War. Waldheim later stated that "he did not know about the murder of civilians there". Posted by 4 days ago. Our response to both sides was that this was a legal decision that would be made by the Justice Department based on U.S. law. Then we supported him to be Secretary General of the United Nations. Kurt Waldheim. Eventually, though, he was forced to acknowledge that he continued in the military as an intelligence officer, stationed from 1942 to 1945 in Greece and Yugoslavia -- sites of some of the most horrendous massacres of the war. Podgorica, Yugoslavia. Reply . Waldheim was born in Sankt Andr-Wrdern, near Vienna, on 21 December 1918. [21], As secretary-general from 1972 onward, Waldheim opened and addressed a number of major international conferences convened under United Nations auspices. 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 . [40], Part of the reason for the controversy was Austria's refusal to address its national role in the Holocaust (many leading Nazis, including Adolf Hitler, had been born Austrians, and Austria became part of the Third Reich). president of Austria and secretary-general of the United Nations. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. VIENNA (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, whose career was tainted by disclosures of his Nazi past, was buried in a state funeral on Saturday. During his campaign to become President of Austria, the Social Democrat opposition made charges about his activities during the war. Notes. Kurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and statesman who served two terms as the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), from 1972 to 1981. He was soon conscripted into the German army, however, and served on the Russian front until 1941, when he was wounded. That was the kind of fellow I was looking for. Normally thats what the Austrian President does. Many years later when I was a senior member of the Policy Planning Staff, we were asked whether the U.S. should support Waldheim for a second term as Secretary General of the United Nations. That position earned Wiesenthal the enmity of some Jewish groups. He continued to maintain a few important friends, who in turn suffered for their association. Daniel Radcliffe as Howard Stern in photos from the set of "Private Parts" remake. [29][30], Waldheim was the first Secretary-General to visit North Korea, in 1979. No reviews. 28. helmikuuta San Josssa Kaliforniassa alkoi oikeudenkynti professori Angela Davisia vastaan. Because of his known anti-Nazi sympathies, Walter Waldheim was twice arrested by the Gestapo and lost his job. Waldheims UN secretaryship beginning in 1972 was characterized as efficient and ministerial. 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. 100 comments. The case that defined the legacy and memory of the longtime diplomat was built around a grainy black-and-white photograph that showed a young Waldheim -- tall, lean and uniformed -- as he fought for a Nazi army unit blamed for wartime atrocities in the Balkans. He apparently gained the sympathy of the Austrian electorate and won the presidency with 54% of the vote. The Germans were unhappy with our decision. The Austrians, of course, were beside themselves. - Photo agency: Newsweek. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. However, China was still opposed to Waldheim and approached several Third World countries seeking challengers. Kurt Waldheim . 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 . However, Salim was vetoed by the United States, while Waldheim was vetoed by China. [45] Although Waldheim had stated that he was unaware of any crimes taking place, the committee cited evidence that Waldheim must have known about war crimes. And he portrayed himself as the victim of a smear campaign orchestrated by outside, foreign forces. It was a complicated situation because some years earlier the United States had supported Waldheims successful candidacy for United Nations Secretary General and now we were going to ban him as a war criminal from entry into the U.S. Waldheim had been in the German army and lied about his military service. Ironically, Thomas Klestil was elected President when Waldheim completed his term of office. He was secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-81) and . 5), page 188. He had been stationed in Yugoslavia when atrocities were committed. The Austrian government, hoping to put the matter to rest, appointed a special historical commission to review the evidence against Waldheim. Waldheim published an autobiography. After all, Waldheim was their democratically elected President whom the U.S. had supported for the UN Secretary General and now we were banning him as a war criminal. 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. "[40] He said that he had never fired a shot or even seen a partisan. I said Kurt Waldheim was the perfect Viennese head waiter type, and what the UN needed more than anything else at that time was a Viennese head waiter type as Secretary General. Four years after returning from New York to Austria, Waldheim was hot on the campaign trail, all but certain of an . Kurt Josef Waldheim (Sankt Andr-Wrdern, 21 dcembre 1918 - Vienne, 14 juin 2007) . No less a figure than the late Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi hunter from Vienna, refused to label Waldheim a war criminal, although he was certain Waldheim knew more than he admitted. [49][50] The 232-page internal Department of Justice 9 April 1987 investigative report was released in 1994 by that agency, and it is available at the agency's website. Waldheim also took a special interest in the future of Namibia and South Africa. Visitor's guide to United Nations in the time of Kurt Waldheim 1973. by Kurt Waldheim | Jan 1, 1973. Childhood & Early Life. They claimed that prominent German politicians who were involved in worse things than Waldheim have gotten into the United States. His aides at the United Nations even accused the Israeli mission of spreading rumors that he supported the Nazis. Theres no doubt about that. 07 "Join The Howard Stern Club" [1:55, February 9] Tiny Tim interview, his last involvement with the show until New Year's Rotten Eve. To deduce that knowledge constitutes some kind of crime is simply not correct, he told an Austrian television interviewer. [10] After publication, documents and witnesses came to light that revealed Waldheim's military service continued until 1945, during which time he rose to the rank of Oberleutnant. 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. The son of a civil servant, Waldheim graduated from the Vienna Consular Academy in 1938 and from the University of Vienna, where he received a doctor of laws degree, in 1944. There were a lot of them around. Waldheims father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. The official Waldheim biography, which he had studiously maintained for decades, was a lie. In 1985, he launched his bid for the presidency of Austria, a largely ceremonial post that he nevertheless wanted to take from the hands of the Socialist Party, which had held it 16 years. And, it was later discovered, he had served with the Abwehr, which was the German military counter-intelligence, and was probably co-responsible for war crimes. He led Austrias first delegation to the UN (1955) and subsequently represented the country in Canada (195660), first as minister plenipotentiary and then as ambassador. [6] In the autumn of 1937, now an army reservist, Waldheim entered the prestigious Consular Academy in Vienna on a scholarship, where he began his studies in law and diplomacy. He was reelected in 1976 despite some opposition from less-developed countries, but a third term was vetoed by the Chinese government in 1981. BODDE: Kurt Waldheim was President of Austria. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. The office has uncovered former concentration camp guards and others who hid their Nazi past when applying for entry into the U.S. Waldheim was the biggest case that they had handled to date. He was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. 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. [25] Amidst international protest, "the UN spokesman said [in his daily press conference] it was not the secretary-general's practice to comment on telegrams sent him by heads of government. No, at least not during the Cold War when important strategic interests were at stake. What the U.N. needs is a quiet approach, he said. [36][37][38] The 23 March 1986 public disclosure by the World Jewish Congress that the organization had unearthed the fact that the United Nations War Crimes Commission concluded after the war that Waldheim was implicated in Nazi mass murder and should be arrested arguably transformed the Waldheim affair into the most sensational of all post-war Nazi scandals. The sad thing was that one of the OSI lawyers on the team was anxious to get home to his family. Song, Little Ricky 8/14/86 Susan Berkley, Cindi Lauper Record, Phila. To make matters worse, the Justice Department would cut corners. Probably. The former Secretary General of the United Nations and Ambassador to France and Canada was initially seen as an obvious choice for the position, which is primarily a ceremonial role. The German occupation in the Balkans was particularly brutal. I had either to continue to serve or be executed. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Waldheim was supported by 11 votes, including the Soviet Union, and led the first two rounds of voting. Shit is just hard to watch, his jokes were never funny. Many were displaced persons at the end of the war and ended up in Austria. But for many critics, Waldheim embodied their view of the U.N. as a toothless appeaser or a weak tool of the dominant superpowers. [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. Many Austrians apparently viewed Waldheim's life as a parable of their own. The Waldheim Waltz: Directed by Ruth Beckermann. His service from 1942 to 1945 was the subject of international review in 1985 and 1986. The craft were also inscribed with a written message from then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter. 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. However, he was vetoed by China in the second round. The fact that Waldheim played a significant role in military units that unquestionably committed war crimes makes him at the very least morally complicit in those crimes.". He is a figurehead and spends a great amount of time visiting other countries. [14], Waldheim's name appears on the Wehrmacht's "honour list" of those responsible for the militarily successful operation. Then it is easy to make references to the present. His family was with him when he succumbed to cardiovascular failure. A year after the first allegations surfaced, the U.S. Justice Department took the highly unusual step of placing the sitting Austrian presidents name on a watch list, which prohibited him from entering the United States. Along with his family, Waldheim opposed the German annexation of Austria in 1938, and while actively campaigning against it in Vienna was attacked and injured by Austrian Nazis. Israeli ambassador Yehuda Zvi Blum denied the charges, saying, "We don't believe Waldheim ever supported the Nazis and we never said he did. [13] According to one post-war investigator, prisoners were routinely shot within only a few hundred metres (yards) of Waldheim's office,[14] and 35 kilometres (22mi) away at the Jasenovac concentration camp. On the Policy Planning Staff several of the other members and I, who was supposed to know something about Austria, we all had access to all the intelligence that anybody else did. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [26], Waldheim ran for a second term in the 1976 UN Secretary-General selection. info); St. Andr-Wrdern, Baixa ustria, 21 de dezembro de 1918 - Viena, 14 de junho de 2007 [ 1]) foi um diplomata e poltico austraco, Secretrio-geral da ONU de 1972 a 1981 e Presidente da Repblica da ustria de 1986 a 1992. When he was Austrian Consul General in Los Angeles, Klestil developed a close relationship with the so-called California mafia that [President Ronald] Reagan brought to Washington. Waldheim did not challenge the authenticity of the documents and instead sought to explain his actions as the hard choices one must make during a reign of terror to survive and to protect ones family and future. We wanted the information and we did not want it to fall into the hands of the Soviets. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. Today is Tuesday, March 10, the 70th day of 2020. Shortly before his birth the Habsburg monarchy had collapsed, and his father, whose Czech family had been called Watzlawick . From left to right, Italian Cdmr. Footage of Austria's then-presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim speaking at a rally, from "The Waldheim Waltz." Credit: Ruth Beckermann filmproduktion The 90-minute film interweaves the video shot by Beckermann with other archival footage, creating a dramatic account of the buildup to the 1986 election - a brief period in history when the eyes . But the weirdest part was his German Imitation was a dead ringer for Kurt . The World Jewish Congress also visited the Department to gain support for doing it. "Our family was under constant surveillance," Waldheim wrote. Preview, Elvis 8/15/86 Susan Berkley, Kurt Waldheim Jr. 8/18/86 Philadelphia broadcast debut 8/21/86 Post Office massacre 8/22/86 Stern song debut, Boomerang 8/25/86 Morning Zoo 9/11/86 Siskel and Ebert The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith . His intelligence regarding work in Greece during World War II raised more questions than answers. 4 Min Read. In 1986, four years after his tenure as the UN Secretary General, Kurt Waldheim made a bid to lead his native Austria. These included the third session of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (Santiago, April 1972), the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, June 1972), the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (Caracas, June 1974), the Third World Population Conference (Bucharest, August 1974) and the World Food Conference (Rome, November 1974), and the World Conference on Women, 1975 (Mexico City, June 1975). Updates? In 1939, Waldheim was drafted into the German Wehrmacht. During the later, UN Resolution 3379, which considered Zionism as a form of racism and equated it with South African Apartheid, was approved by impulse of Arab countries, the Soviet bloc, and Non-Aligned Movement countries. For if history teaches us anything, it is that the Hitlers and the Mengeles could never have accomplished their atrocious deeds by themselves. You might remember that we took the high moral road right after the war and declared that anyone who had belonged to the Nazi Party could only work at menial jobs. Nearly a decade later, he brought himself to accept that lying about his past was wrong. 1989 Vol. 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. 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. They told us that they didnt know about these peoples past and why should they be saddled with former Romanians or Yugoslavs. Foreign Affairs magazine, SeptemberOctober, 1995 (Volume 74 No. [56] He died on 14 June 2007, at the age of 88 from heart failure. 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. 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