Posted by 4 days ago. 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. "Our family was under constant surveillance," Waldheim wrote. The video also features Jessica Hahn in the 3-D skit "Jungle Man", "Guess Who's the Jew" with Kurt Waldheim, Jr. and KKK-guy Daniel Carver, see Capt. During 196870 he served as Austrian foreign minister. The U.S. ban was never lifted. Waldheim lied about his wartime service in the Balkans, maintaining that his military career ended in 1942 after he was wounded in a battle on the Russian front. An international commission of historians has found "no proof" that Kurt Waldheim committed war crimes, according to the 200-page report it submitted to Chancellor Franz Vranitzky here Monday . Waldheims survivors include his wife, Elisabeth, and three children. [47] The committee also noted that "he only had very minor possibilities to act against the injustices happening". Although it was never proved that Waldheim himself committed atrocities during World War II, he was a lieutenant in army intelligence, attached to brutal German military units that executed thousands of Yugoslav partisans and civilians and deported thousands of Greek Jews to death camps from 1942 to 1944. He is a figurehead and spends a great amount of time visiting other countries. [59] However, shortly after he was elected, Waldheim was banned from entering the United States under suspicion of Nazi war crimes. Instead Waldheim, a hardworking and talented diplomat, was allowed to rise to the pinnacle of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, and then go on to serve two terms as secretary general, from 1972 to 1982. Podgorica, Yugoslavia. To deduce that knowledge constitutes some kind of crime is simply not correct, he told an Austrian television interviewer. For if history teaches us anything, it is that the Hitlers and the Mengeles could never have accomplished their atrocious deeds by themselves. 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. Shit is just hard to watch, his jokes were never funny. Read more stories about World War II. 450. 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. Last week, former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim died at the age of 88. 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 . Thu 14 Jun 2007 19.08 EDT. During his campaign to become president in 1986, it became public that . Most often they would take the second choice. [51] The report catalogues evidence that, the U.S. government concluded, proved that Waldheim had taken part in, among other actions: the transfer of civilian prisoners to the SS for exploitation as slave labor; the mass deportation of civiliansincluding Jews from Greek islands and the town of Banja Luka, Yugoslaviato concentration and death camps; the utilization of antisemitic propaganda; the mistreatment and execution of Allied prisoners; and reprisal executions of hostages and other civilians. That was true. (Waldheim, second from left, with Italian General Ercole Roncaglia, Col. Hans Herbert Macholz, and SS-GruppenfhrerArtur Phleps at Podgorica airfield, May 1943.). - Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032). But more than four decades later, his assertions were disputed by witnesses, photographs, medals and commendations given to Waldheim, and by his own signature on documents linked to massacres and deportations. He argued that the Austrian Prime Minister, a Social Democrat, was about to visit the U.S. and it would be a great embarrassment to him if we banned Waldheim. Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. International uproar surged, especially as the World Jewish Congress and American and European media continued to air new revelations about Waldheims past. "Waldheim was clearly not a psychopath like Dr. Josef Mengele nor a hate-filled racist like Adolf Hitler," Herzstein wrote. Would we have done this to the German Chancellor? Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. He continued to maintain a few important friends, who in turn suffered for their association. Waldheim may have been able to hide his past for so long because of the web of intrigue between intelligence services in the Cold War era. hide. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Fred played Kurt Waldheim, Jr. Great stuff. 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. Kurt Josef Waldheim ; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was supported by 11 votes, including the Soviet Union, and led the first two rounds of voting. Though I lived in the Austrian capital, I was spending most of my time covering the brutal fighting and ethnic displacements then racking a disintegrating Yugoslavia. It was to damage his reputation for . Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army . Still, the Waldheim affair took up a lot of our time. Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. The Pope received him, and that got people unhappy here. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Waldheim weathered protests abroad, calls for his resignation at home and even the cold shoulder of some members of his own political party. 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. Kurt Josef Waldheim (German pronunciation: [kt valdham]; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. No, at least not during the Cold War when important strategic interests were at stake. 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. 4 Min Read. Theres no doubt about that. There was testimony that he had roughed up some of the POWs. Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. He was 88. 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. Get out! and we went out. Then in November 1938, he enrolled in the SA, the paramilitary Nazi organization of storm troopers. 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. As a member of the German army, I did what was necessary to survive the day, the system, the war -- no more, no less, he wrote in the 1996 book, The Answer.. Javier Prez de Cullar of Peru won the selection and succeeded Waldheim as Secretary-General of the United Nations. The film "Waldheim's Waltz" shows exactly the opposite. [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. The veto duel between China and the United States lasted a record 16 rounds. Waldheim was born in Sankt Andr-Wrdern, near Vienna, on 21 December 1918. [West German Chancellor Helmut] Kohl used to meet with him unofficially when Kohl was on his annual summer vacation in 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). [5], Although his father wanted him to study medicine, Waldheim had an aversion to the sight of blood, and had already decided to enter the foreign service. Sklici in opombe Glej tudi . Kurt Waldheim, who has died aged 88 of heart failure, served two terms as secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-82) before it was revealed that he had lied about . 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. On this day in 1987, the Justice and State departments . Or, as his critics at the time put it, pliant and passive. June 15, 2007. He oversaw effective and sometimes massive relief efforts in Bangladesh, Nicaragua, the Sudan-Sahel area of Africa, and Guatemala, as well as peacekeeping operations in Cyprus, the two Yemens, Angola, Guinea, and, especially, the Middle East. By William Walter Kay Global Research, February 22, 2023 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Waldheims father, Walther, was briefly jailed because of his anti-Nazi views and stripped of his job. . The World Jewish Congress was particularly active in pushing this, and Secretary [of State George] Shultz had absolutely no sympathy for Waldheim himself. 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. Austria refused to pay compensation to victims of Nazism, and from 1970 onwards refused to investigate Austrian citizens who were senior Nazis. Later he was Waldheims campaign manager, and he finally had to resign because he said in an interview that unless they found that Waldheim had personally strangled somebody, they did not have a case. The World Jewish Congress was actively involved in the campaign to expose Waldheim's war crimes and ban him from . [23] While in Tehran, it was announced that an attempt on Waldheim's life had been foiled. In the telegram, Amin "applauded the massacre of the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich and said Germany was the most appropriate locale for this because it was where Hitler burned more than six million Jews". Report Save Follow. His family was with him when he succumbed to cardiovascular failure. I remember one case, hed been back and forth to the United States 25 times, and all of a sudden he didnt qualify. 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. . Waldheim affair, controversy concerning the military record of former Austrian diplomat and statesman Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) and his knowledge about war crimes committed by Austria during World War II. [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. The United States became the third country granted access to the file. But, in fact, at the age of 19 he joined the National Socialist German Students League - a Nazi youth organization - just a month after the Anschluss. [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). Kurt Waldheim . Donald Trump Jr. claims US train network is being sabotaged as revenge for Nord Stream 2 after derailments in Ohio and Michigan . Negligee and Underpants Party: Directed by Jim Fitzgerald, Wendy Scatloni, Brad Mays. Waldheim had unsuccessfully sought election as President of Austria in 1971, but his second attempt on 8 June 1986 proved successful. In my view he was the kind of person and there are many of his type in Austria who goes along to get along. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. A son, Gerhard, and another daughter, Christa, followed. He retired in 1992, never again to assume a public role outside Austria. It was not until Waldheim left the United Nations and then ran for president of Austria in 1986 that his wartime past became widely known. The controversy surrounding my person in and outside Austria often hurt me, he said. Waldheim ran for an unprecedented third full term as Secretary-General in the 1981 selection. Allegations concerning Dr. Kurt Waldheim hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, [Leather Bound] Wikipedia je trna znamka neprofitne organizacije Wikimedia Foundation Inc.; Pravilnik o zasebnosti We were treating Austria shabbily and finally the State Department forced the Justice Department to negotiate a new arrangement. Both were interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Beyond that, though, he continued to deny an active role in widespread executions and abuse and blamed his downfall on a conspiracy by American Jews. At Waldheim's own request, no foreign heads of states or governments were invited to attend his funeral except Hans-Adam II, the Prince of Liechtenstein. 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. They were also convinced that the U.S. was picking on Austria because it was small. Normally thats what the Austrian President does. Kurt Waldheim: distinguished diplomat who fell from grace. 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. In 1987 the US Justice Department declared Kurt Waldheim a dangerous agent; forever forbidding his re-entry onto US soil. 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. 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. This became the "Waldheim Affair" which was important in exposing the criminal role . Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Waldheim resoundingly defeated Echeverra in the first round of voting. It was sad, because he said, Bill, youve turned my biggest success in my life to crap. He said, I got this man elected President, and you turned around and ruined him. I didnt apologize, because I didnt think I had to apologize for what we did. It took hundreds of thousands of ordinary men - well-meaning but ambitious men like Kurt Waldheim - to make the Third Reich possible. Active in the Christian Social Party, he was well regarded as a devoutly Catholic family man. Obituary: Kurt Waldheim. On the other hand, some bad guys showed up. 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. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. However, there was a clause in the displaced persons legislation that stated if you lied on your application to come to the U.S., you could be deported back to the country from where you emigrated. Those who relate this film only to current problems . The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith surnamed Vaclavik. The Nazi puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia, awarded Waldheim the Medal of the Crown of King Zvonimir in silver with an oak branches cluster. Posted by 5 days ago. Japan and Syria were the only two countries that laid wreaths on his grave. He probably signed some papers that had to do with deportations and so on. The same year, he was made an honorary member of K.H.V. The embassy dealt with him all the time. Love Fred and the racier shit but I never found any of the various Kurt Waldheim Jr bits funny. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, What time is it on the moon? For much of his adulthood, Waldheim claimed that he was drafted into the German army after Adolf Hitler occupied Austria but sat out most of the war, attending law school in Vienna, because of a shrapnel wound he suffered on the Eastern Front in 1941. [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 was 88. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . In the immediate aftermath of the fighting, an Allied war crimes commission recommended that he be tried as a war criminal. 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. 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. Both were interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy. During his campaign for the presidency in 1985, what became known internationally as the "Waldheim affair" began. 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. But whatever their units, they were bad guys. Anyone can read what you share. Despite his humble beginnings, Waldheim was able to pursue . William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. Reply . Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. 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. 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. 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 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. Among the deeds in which he was implicated, U.S. officials said, were the transport of civilians to Nazi slave labor camps; the deportation of Jews from the Greek islands and from Banja Luka, in Serbian Bosnia, to death camps; reprisal executions of hostages; and the approval and dissemination of propaganda calling for the elimination of the Jews. "[40] He said that he had never fired a shot or even seen a partisan. 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. Waldheims precise involvement in these brutalities would be a matter of debate and investigation for years to come. Before the presidential elections, investigative journalist Alfred Worm revealed in the Austrian weekly news magazine Profil that Waldheim's recently published autobiography had several omissions about his life between 1938 and 1945. However, first and foremost, it is a film about the process of the affair. Waldheim did not attend but sent a gift, prompting Schwarzenegger to give what participants described as a very emotional toast in Waldheims honor. Ironically, Thomas Klestil was elected President when Waldheim completed his term of office. The Austrians would be embarrassed, because it would look like the U.S. was sending another Nazi back to Austria. 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. So even if they were Romanians or Yugoslavs, if they emigrated to the U.S. from Austria they could be deported back to Austria. [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. 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. 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. The Waldheim affair triggered a fundamental debate in Austria about the countrys past during World War II. 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