[56] He died on 14 June 2007, at the age of 88 from heart failure. Active in the Christian Social Party, he was well regarded as a devoutly Catholic family man. However, shortly after he was elected, Waldheim was banned from entering the United States under suspicion of Nazi war crimes. Kurt Josef Waldheim, fdd 21 december 1918 i Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Niedersterreich, dd 14 juni 2007 i Wien, var en sterrikisk politiker och diplomat. There was testimony that he had roughed up some of the POWs. The Pope received him, and that got people unhappy here. Waldheims father, Walther, was briefly jailed because of his anti-Nazi views and stripped of his job. [26], Waldheim ran for a second term in the 1976 UN Secretary-General selection. And so, apparently in the clear, Waldheim entered the Austrian foreign service at wars end. Waldheim also took a special interest in the future of Namibia and South Africa. Despite his humble beginnings, Waldheim was able to pursue university studies in law and diplomacy in Vienna. When they emigrated to the United States they hid their Nazi past. share. Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) served as secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. 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.. That was the kind of fellow I was looking for. Welfia Klosterneuburg, a Roman Catholic student fraternity part of the Austrian Cartellverband. 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. Waldheim published an autobiography. Kurt Waldheim a ocup les fonctions de Secrtaire gnral de l'Organisation des Nations Unies de 1972 1981. The World Jewish Congress was particularly active in pushing this, and Secretary [of State George] Shultz had absolutely no sympathy for Waldheim himself. He was 88. - Photo agency: Newsweek. BODDE: Kurt Waldheim was President of Austria. There had been a lot of political pressure on the Administration to ban Waldheim, especially from the World Jewish Congress and other people to do this. Austria refused to pay compensation to victims of Nazism, and from 1970 onwards refused to investigate Austrian citizens who were senior Nazis. [44], In view of the ongoing international controversy, the Austrian government decided to appoint an international committee of historians to examine Waldheim's life between 1938 and 1945. Kurt Waldheim was born on 21 December 1918 in a village named Sankt Andra-Wordern, located close to Vienna, Austria to Watzlawick and his wife. Israeli ambassador Yehuda Zvi Blum denied the charges, saying, "We don't believe Waldheim ever supported the Nazis and we never said he did. 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. [1] He was the eldest child of Walter Watzlawik, a schoolmaster of Czech origin,[2] and his wife Josefine Petrasch. That is why they preferred him. 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. Reply . He retired in 1992, never again to assume a public role outside Austria. 100 comments. M. Kurt Waldheim a entam son deuxime mandat de cinq ans en tant que . 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 soon conscripted into the German army, however, and served on the Russian front until 1941, when he was wounded. 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 . Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. Yet no government pressed to bring Waldheim to account or even to reveal his unsavory history. It was reported, for example, that he had received a special decoration in 1942 from the Ustasha, Croatias Nazi puppet regime, for valorous conduct in the brutal repression of guerrillas and civilians in Bosnia. It was a period when the world body was increasingly dominated by third world rhetoric and paralyzed by disagreements between the superpowers. As is now known, he fought on the Eastern Front until he was wounded in December 1941. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. 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. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and married a daughter of the mayor. [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. Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army as a volunteer (193637) before he began to study for a diplomatic career. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . But the weirdest part was his German Imitation was a dead ringer for Kurt . 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. We wanted the information and we did not want it to fall into the hands of the Soviets. It was a complicated situation because some years earlier the United States had supported . Would we have done this to the German Chancellor? The embassy dealt with him all the time. The United States became the third country granted access to the file. In 1994, Pope John Paul II awarded Waldheim a knighthood in the Order of Pius IX and his wife a papal honor. Jun 14, 2007 at 3:03 pm. [21], As secretary-general from 1972 onward, Waldheim opened and addressed a number of major international conferences convened under United Nations auspices. I was listening to an Audiobook recently, specifically the book KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann. Love Fred and the racier shit but I never found any of the various Kurt Waldheim Jr bits funny. Read more stories about World War II. Cardinal . Share. *** In 1987 the US Justice Department declared Kurt Waldheim a dangerous agent; forever forbidding his re-entry onto US soil. 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 . Last week, former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim died at the age of 88. Kurt Josef Waldheim was born on December 21 1918 at Tulln, near Vienna. The book featured many different people from different countries, the narrator made the odd choice to imitate various accents of the people quoted. Other pieces of evidence included logs and intelligence reports, purportedly bearing his signature, describing mass deportations of Greek Jews to death camps. 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. [23], On 11 September 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin sent a telegram to Waldheim, copies of which went to Yasser Arafat and Golda Meir. However, he was vetoed by China in the second round. 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. We have many differences with him, but that isn't one of them. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia as an . (Devinez qui est le Juif) comme crivain Fred Norris peint le portrait d'un nazi nomm Kurt Waldheim, Jr. L'album de 1989 New-York l'auteur-compositeur Lou Reed Il contient une chanson intitule Bonsoir M. Waldheim. The controversy surrounding my person in and outside Austria often hurt me, he said. . Wikipedia je trna znamka neprofitne organizacije Wikimedia Foundation Inc.; Pravilnik o zasebnosti At the end of the War we issued visas to German scientists who were Nazis and to Nazi intelligence officers as well. During his campaign to become president in 1986, it became public that . 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. There was no comment or statement from the governors office Thursday on the death of Waldheim.). There are 296 days left in the year. He apparently gained the sympathy of the Austrian electorate and won the presidency with 54% of the vote. [9] Shortly thereafter he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing. Following the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, his father changed the family surname to . [52:55, April] Kurt Waldheim Jr. and "Guess Who's The Jew," Washington DC pro-choice rally, Reporter Jim Jensen parody. report. The German occupation in the Balkans was particularly brutal. 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. He was 88. 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. Posted by 5 days ago. They told us that they didnt know about these peoples past and why should they be saddled with former Romanians or Yugoslavs. In my view he was the kind of person and there are many of his type in Austria who goes along to get along. That claim was repeated in two autobiographies and routinely to journalists. 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.. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. Austrian state media said Waldheim, who was hospitalized last month with a fever-causing infection, died of heart failure in Vienna. [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). In the years between the discovery of his scandalous past and his death, Waldheim steadfastly portrayed himself as an ordinary, unheroic citizen caught up in a maelstrom, a point Herzstein reflected upon. [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. 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. Waldheim applied for membership in the National Socialist German Students' League (NSDStB), a division of the Nazi Party. And there was some fear that because of Finlands position, he might be subject to Soviet pressures. Fred played Kurt Waldheim, Jr. Great stuff. 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 . Chinas opposition aside, Waldheim had appeal for rival superpowers the United States and the Soviet Union, which viewed him as nonideological and noncontroversial. That position earned Wiesenthal the enmity of some Jewish groups. Song, Little Ricky 8/14/86 Susan Berkley, Cindi Lauper Record, Phila. [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. Kurt Waldheim's rebellious, ne'er do well (((son))) It was odd. [22] His diplomatic efforts particularly in the Middle East were overshadowed by the diplomacy of then U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. [West German Chancellor Helmut] Kohl used to meet with him unofficially when Kohl was on his annual summer vacation in Austria. Waldheim entered the diplomatic service in 1945. Carriepants931 . Well, there was never really any good evidence that tied Waldheim directly to atrocities. He was 88. So far, the Justice Department was acting completely aboveboard. 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. Then, in March 1986, during the campaign, Waldheim was hit with damning disclosures. 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. 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 [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". Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. Waldheim had served a painful term as Austrian President, marked from beginning . (Waldheim, second from left, with Italian General Ercole Roncaglia, Col. Hans Herbert Macholz, and SS-GruppenfhrerArtur Phleps at Podgorica airfield, May 1943.). But for whatever reason, he and thousands of others eluded prosecution in the chaos of postwar Europe. Himself / Kurt Waldheim Jr. Petey Greene's Washington: 1981: TV Series: Himself: Archive Footage . [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"). THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. [34], Waldheim had previously claimed to have received a medical discharge after being wounded in winter 1942. Pamphlet. Waldheim had unsuccessfully sought election as President of Austria in 1971, but his second attempt on 8 June 1986 proved successful. Many were displaced persons at the end of the war and ended up in Austria. 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. So when the negotiations were completed he flew to London to pick up a plane that would get him home sooner. The ex-concentration guard would then show up on the Austrians doorstep. All of a sudden, we had this case that involved the President of Austria. He was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Waldheim was a member of the Austrian People's Party (sterreichische Volkspartei, or VP) and served as foreign minister. [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. [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. 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. Entire villages were wiped out by Lohrs men. Normally thats what the Austrian President does. Knfel, Ulrike and Kraske, Marion (4 April 2008), Wiesenthal, Simon (1999) "The Waldheim Case" in. [40] His former immediate superior at the time stated that Waldheim had "remained confined to a desk". Reply. In the meantime, Congress passed a law, the Holtzman Act, named after a Congresswoman who introduced it. The film "Waldheim's Waltz" shows exactly the opposite. But theyve hit a snag, Student debt is a crisis: Activists rally outside Supreme Court for loan forgiveness, Tensions rise in Nigeria as opposition demands new vote. 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. But for most of the world, Waldheim was ruined and discredited. During his presidential campaign, the efforts of his political opponents, investigative journalists, historians and the World Jewish Congress uncovered archival evidence of Waldheim's involvement with the Nazi movement as a student and his wartime role in the Balkans. Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army . 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. [33]:411 The events of 1981 established a two-term limit on the office, and no Secretary-General since Waldheim has run for a third term. 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. Javier Prez de Cullar of Peru won the selection and succeeded Waldheim as Secretary-General of the United Nations. It is not a career-enhancing move, to get thrown out of the Secretarys office and to have done so in association with the likes of Ron Lauder made it doubly unpleasant. 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. Waldheim's tenure as Austria's president was tainted by revelations that he had concealed his wartime record. Negligee and Underpants Party: Directed by Jim Fitzgerald, Wendy Scatloni, Brad Mays. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith . [23] While in Tehran, it was announced that an attempt on Waldheim's life had been foiled. 463. Omissions? Then Ryan or someone from OSI would leak to The New York Times that they had nabbed another Nazi and deported him to Austria. 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