Kurt Waldheim, the erudite diplomat who served as U.N. secretary-general and Austrias president but left the world stage a pariah after his Nazi past was exposed, died Thursday. Thu 14 Jun 2007 19.08 EDT. 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. Fred Norris as Kurt Waldheim Jr. and Quentin the Stutterer; Robin Quivers vs Darren the Foot Licker in a best-of-3 tennis match (with Fred the Elephant Boy as umpire) Howard Stern vs Gary Dell'Abate in a best-of-7 tennis match; Vinnie Mazzeo lights his head on fire and Dr. Marshall King hypnotises Kimberly Taylor; Gina Man and Crazy Jerry Despite that, I tried to the best of my ability to remain loyal to my values and to serve my homeland.. During his campaign for the presidency in 1985, what became known internationally as the "Waldheim affair" began. [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. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. 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. "[18], In 1945, Waldheim surrendered to British forces in Carinthia, at which point he said he had fled his command post within Army Group E, where he was serving with General Alexander Lhr.[19]. After the electoral defeat of the Austrian Peoples Party, Waldheim was elected chairman of the Safeguards Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Then it is easy to make references to the present. Donald Trump Jr. claims US train network is being sabotaged as revenge for Nord Stream 2 after derailments in Ohio and Michigan . then Kurt Waldheim tried to seduce me when I was just 14.' Small . After six weeks of deadlock, Waldheim and Salim both withdrew from the race. M. Kurt Waldheim a entam son deuxime mandat de cinq ans en tant que . Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary-general and Austrian president, has died at 88. Song, Little Ricky 8/14/86 Susan Berkley, Cindi Lauper Record, Phila. Cardinal . 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 won an accidental victory in the third round of voting when those three permanent members failed to coordinate their vetoes and all abstained. But sure, its this kind of ex post facto thing that we got into. William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. Consequently, he chose not to run for a second term in 1992. With Kurt Waldheim, Ruth Beckermann, Yasser Arafat, Hubertus Czernin. But the disclosures sparked a nationalist backlash in Austria that aided Waldheim's election as president. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. He was secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-81) and . "His very ordinariness, in fact, may be the most important thing about him. It was to damage his reputation for . English: Kurt Waldheim, secretary-general of the United Nations, during a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York City Waldheim was a member of the Austrian People's Party, a World War II Veteran and . On this day in 1987, the Justice and State departments . Like many ambitious people, he loved publicity. [1] He was the eldest child of Walter Watzlawik, a schoolmaster of Czech origin,[2] and his wife Josefine Petrasch. Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. We wanted the information and we did not want it to fall into the hands of the Soviets. Kurt Josef Waldheim (German pronunciation: [kt valdham]; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. An account published in the Los Angeles Times in 1971 described him this way: Waldheim is very much the diplomats diplomat: conservative in dress, elegant in manner and discreet to a fault.. All of a sudden, we had this case that involved the President of Austria. "[54], Throughout his term as President (19861992), Waldheim was officially deemed persona non grata by the United States and, officially or informally, by nearly every other nation in the world outside the Arab world. The Austrians, of course, were beside themselves. 3. Podgorica, Yugoslavia. He said that he had known about some of the things that had happened, and had been horrified, but could not see what else he could have done. I had either to continue to serve or be executed. He was 88. For two years beginning in 1968, he was the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Austrian People's Party, before going back as Permanent Representative to the U.N. in 1970. Political career. 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. After a period as director general for political affairs in the Austrian Foreign Ministry, he became his countrys ambassador to the UN (196468, 197071). Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Waldheim's functions within the staff of German Army's Group E from 1942 until 1945, as determined by the International Commission of Historians,[11] were: By 1943, Waldheim was serving in the capacity of an aide-de-camp in Army Group E which was headed by General Alexander Lhr, who would be executed as a war criminal in 1947. "Kurt Waldheim did not, in fact, order, incite or personally commit what is commonly called a war crime," Herzstein wrote. Kurt Josef Waldheim, fdd 21 december 1918 i Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Niedersterreich, dd 14 juni 2007 i Wien, var en sterrikisk politiker och diplomat. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Share. 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. Kurt Waldheim was appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations for a five-year term beginning on 1 January 1972. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. In the first round of voting, Waldheim lost to Salim by one vote. Israeli ambassador Yehuda Zvi Blum denied the charges, saying, "We don't believe Waldheim ever supported the Nazis and we never said he did. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. That position earned Wiesenthal the enmity of some Jewish groups. During 196870 he served as Austrian foreign minister. During his campaign to become President of Austria, the Social Democrat opposition made charges about his activities during the war. If we had done a little more digging, both 1946 and 1972 or whenever it was, we might have found out about him. 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 . William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. Kurt Waldheim, the erudite diplomat who served as secretary-general of the United Nations and Austria's president but left the world stage a pariah after his Nazi past was . 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. [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). When I was in Vienna, Waldheim was Political Director of the Foreign Ministry. 1989 Vol. [15] Decades later, during the lobbying for his election as U.N. Secretary General, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, who had led the Yugoslav Partisans during the war, awarded Waldheim one of the highest Yugoslav orders, not knowing the details of his prior military service. After losing the presidential election, Waldheim ran for Secretary-General of the United Nations in the 1971 selection. Fischer also praised Waldheim for his efforts to solve international crises and for his contributions to world peace. The resulting diplomatic strains between the U.S. and Austria encumbered relations for many years afterwards, as visa applicants who had traveled to the U.S. for years were abruptly denied, and Holocaust war crimes, initially shadowed by the Cold War, were suddenly brought to light. We have many differences with him, but that isn't one of them. Waldheim ran for an unprecedented third full term as Secretary-General in the 1981 selection. Kurt Waldheim . 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 . He refused to resign, but, finally acknowledging years of trials, difficulties and disappointments, he chose not to run for reelection to a second six-year term. In March 1938, Adolf Hitler ordered his army into Austria and annexed the country. 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. Later investigations showed that Kurt Waldheim, despite claims that he never belonged to any Nazi organization, apparently joined a Nazi student union three weeks after the Anschluss and then ran with the so-called brownshirts, a Nazi paramilitary group. 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] And fellow Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger invited Waldheim to his 1986 wedding to Maria Shriver, a month after the disclosures about Waldheims Nazi past. 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. 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. 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 . ONCE, in more glorious times, the empire of Austria stretched from Prague and Cracow to Trent, below the Dolomites . 463. 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. Daniel Radcliffe as Howard Stern in photos from the set of "Private Parts" remake. The controversy surrounding Waldheim was particularly problematic for Austria, forcing a tardy reckoning of the nations complicity in Nazi crimes. However, this knowledge was not used against Waldheim, because the Finns believed he would not be chosen anyway due to the United States having promised to veto him. The Security Council had recommended the appointment on 21 December 1971 and . They thought he was treated badly by the U.S. As a result of the ban Waldheim had a tainted presidency. There are 296 days left in the year. At the end of the War we issued visas to German scientists who were Nazis and to Nazi intelligence officers as well. 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 . Active in the Christian Social Party, he was well regarded as a devoutly Catholic family man. [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. Waldheim applied for membership in the National Socialist German Students' League (NSDStB), a division of the Nazi Party. While he was running for President in Austria in 1985, his service as an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht . Countries refused to deal with him, and he was disinvited from numerous ceremonial functions. When they emigrated to the United States they hid their Nazi past. Austrian state media said Waldheim, who was hospitalized last month with a fever-causing infection, died of heart failure in Vienna. He won a second term in 1976 and might well have gone on to a third had China not insisted on a candidate from the Third World, throwing its backing to Waldheims ultimate successor, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . In his 1985 memoir, "In the Eye of the Storm," Kurt Waldheim described Austria in the aftermath of World War I as "the defeated, ruined, truncated remnant of the former Austro-Hungarian Habsburg Empire.". The World Jewish Congress was actively involved in the campaign to expose Waldheim's war crimes and ban him from . The official Waldheim biography, which he had studiously maintained for decades, was a lie. I was horrified. 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. The Justice lawyer picked up Pan Am 103 in Frankfurt and was killed by the bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland.. And so, apparently in the clear, Waldheim entered the Austrian foreign service at wars end. Kurt Waldheim, a widely esteemed former secretary general of the United Nations, was running for president of Austria in March 1986 when it came to light that he had participated in Nazi . The "Waldheim Affair" is the term conventionally applied to the controversy surrounding the disclosure of the previously unknown past of Kurt Waldheim, former secretary general of the United Nations, which arose during his campaign for the Austrian presidency in 1986.The affair not only focused international attention on Waldheim personally, but also raised broader questions . 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. From left to right, Italian Cdmr. Kurt Valdhajm (nem. Posted by 5 days ago. Politics portal; Kurt Josef Waldheim (German: [kt valtham] (); 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat.Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. He was soon conscripted into the German army, however, and served on the Russian front until 1941, when he was wounded. There was no comment or statement from the governors office Thursday on the death of Waldheim.). The controversy surrounding my person in and outside Austria often hurt me, he said. No, at least not during the Cold War when important strategic interests were at stake. 28. helmikuuta San Josssa Kaliforniassa alkoi oikeudenkynti professori Angela Davisia vastaan. Waldheim's tenure as Austria's president was tainted by revelations that he had concealed his wartime record. - Photo agency: Newsweek. [14], Waldheim's name appears on the Wehrmacht's "honour list" of those responsible for the militarily successful operation. In my view he was the kind of person and there are many of his type in Austria who goes along to get along. He went on to win the presidency in 1986, and less than a year later, the U.S. government formally barred him from entering the country, citing evidence it said showed that he had assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of Allied prisoners, Yugoslav partisans, Jews and other civilians. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. Last week, former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim died at the age of 88. Would we have done this to the German Chancellor? Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). [43] Information about Waldheim's wartime past was also previously published by a pro-German Austrian newspaper, Salzburger Volksblatt, during the 1971 presidential election campaign, including the claim of an SS membership, but the matter was supposedly regarded as unimportant or even advantageous for the candidate at that time. For if history teaches us anything, it is that the Hitlers and the Mengeles could never have accomplished their atrocious deeds by themselves. Theres no doubt about that. 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. Lauder was very close to the Jewish organizations in the U.S. and Austria but he was concerned about the damage a ban on Waldheim would do to U.S.-Austrian relations. [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. Nearly a decade later, he brought himself to accept that lying about his past was wrong. Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army . The ex-concentration guard would then show up on the Austrians doorstep. SPIRO: My job was to track down members of the former German intelligence services in Austria. (Waldheim, second from left, with Italian General Ercole Roncaglia, Col. Hans Herbert Macholz, and SS-GruppenfhrerArtur Phleps at Podgorica airfield, May 1943.). This marked the first time that a head of state had been put on an immigration watchlist. Waldheim admitted that he had not been candid about his past but disclaimed all knowledge of or participation in wartime atrocities. 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. 21 June 2007. Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. 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. Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army as a volunteer (193637) before he began to study for a diplomatic career. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, What time is it on the moon? In 1986 Waldheim ran once again as the Peoples Party candidate for president of Austria. [40] Former Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky, of Jewish origin, denounced the actions of the World Jewish Congress as an "extraordinary infamy",[40] adding that Austrians would not "allow the Jews abroad to tell us who should be our President". 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. 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. *** In 1987 the US Justice Department declared Kurt Waldheim a dangerous agent; forever forbidding his re-entry onto US soil. 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. As a gymnasium student in Klosterneuburg, he excelled at languages and was a competent violinist in the school orchestra, also enjoying swimming, boating and tennis. 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Visitor's guide to United Nations in the time of Kurt Waldheim 1973. by Kurt Waldheim | Jan 1, 1973. Besedilo se sme prosto uporabljati v skladu z dovoljenjem Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Deljenje pod enakimi pogoji 3.0; uveljavljajo se lahko dodatni pogoji.Za podrobnosti glej Pogoje uporabe. Waldheim had served a painful term as Austrian President, marked from beginning . [10], Much historical interest has centred on Waldheim's role in Operation Kozara in 1942. Waldheim did not attend but sent a gift, prompting Schwarzenegger to give what participants described as a very emotional toast in Waldheims honor. 450. [56] He died on 14 June 2007, at the age of 88 from heart failure. 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. 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.. Knfel, Ulrike and Kraske, Marion (4 April 2008), Wiesenthal, Simon (1999) "The Waldheim Case" in. Japan and Syria were the only two countries that laid wreaths on his grave. They argued that if Waldheim were President of Germany, the U.S. wouldnt do such a thing because you need Germany. 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". Fred played Kurt Waldheim, Jr. Great stuff. [7] Following the annexation, Waldheim's father was briefly arrested by the Gestapo and dismissed from his post, while Waldheim's scholarship was cancelled. Yet no government pressed to bring Waldheim to account or even to reveal his unsavory history. 8/13/86 Rafael Pineda, S.Berkley, Kurt Waldheim, Lesb. Then in November 1938, he enrolled in the SA, the paramilitary Nazi organization of storm troopers. 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. 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. The book also alleged that the Soviet Union was aware of Waldheim's alleged involvement in Nazi crimes and that, after vetoing other candidates in order to get Waldheim installed as U.N. Secretary General in 1972, used that information to extract concessions at the United Nations that facilitated KGB espionage in the United States, and that the CIA's failure to anticipate this possibility was a major failure for the intelligence agency. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith surnamed Vaclavik. Anyone can read what you share. [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. Waldheim later stated that "he did not know about the murder of civilians there". Himself / Kurt Waldheim Jr. Petey Greene's Washington: 1981: TV Series: Himself: Archive Footage . [4] Waldheim and his two younger siblings, a brother, Walther, and a sister, Gerlinde, enjoyed a comfortable middle-class upbringing. I dont think any other major country received him. The decision to ban Waldheim was made by Attorney General [Edwin] Meese and Secretary Shultz went along with it. [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. Howard Stern's first Pay-Per-View (although only on the East Coast) with various guests and, not surprisingly, an audience in their negligees and underpants. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Escola Roncagli; Waldheim; German Col. Hans Herbert Macholtz and General of the 7th SS-Division, General Artur Phelps. [48], On 27 April 1987, the United States Departments of Justice and of State announced that evidence amassed in an investigation conducted by the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) had established a prima facie case that Waldheim participated in Nazi-sponsored persecution during World War II and therefore that his entry into the United States was prohibited by federal statute. His family was with him when he succumbed to cardiovascular failure. Declassified documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency show that the CIA had been aware of some details of his wartime past since 1945. report. 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.". I didnt deal with him because he was much above my level. BODDE: Kurt Waldheim was President of Austria. Consequently, following his graduation Waldheim volunteered for a 12-month term of enlistment in the Austrian Army, and was posted to the 1st Dragoon Regiment on his 18th birthday. Reply . Waldheim had unsuccessfully sought election as President of Austria in 1971, but his second attempt on 8 June 1986 proved successful. president of Austria and secretary-general of the United Nations. 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. So decisions were made then in the light of the necessities at the time and were perfectly legitimate, I think. Despite his humble beginnings, Waldheim was able to pursue . He added that the secretary-general condemned any form of racial discrimination and genocide. However, Salim was vetoed by the United States, while Waldheim was vetoed by China. That claim was repeated in two autobiographies and routinely to journalists. BODDE: Kurt Waldheim was President of Austria. 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