[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. Thu 14 Jun 2007 19.08 EDT. Kurt Waldheim. Many of them were Yugoslavs or Romanians and all of them were old. 450. Knfel, Ulrike and Kraske, Marion (4 April 2008), Wiesenthal, Simon (1999) "The Waldheim Case" in. Despite his humble beginnings, Waldheim was able to pursue . [1] He was the eldest child of Walter Watzlawik, a schoolmaster of Czech origin,[2] and his wife Josefine Petrasch. After the electoral defeat of the Austrian Peoples Party, Waldheim was elected chairman of the Safeguards Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Nearly a decade later, he brought himself to accept that lying about his past was wrong. English: Kurt Waldheim, secretary-general of the United Nations, during a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York City 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. Waldheim admitted that he had not been candid about his past but disclaimed all knowledge of or participation in wartime atrocities. Kurt Waldheim, avstrijski astnik, pravnik, diplomat in politik, * 21. december 1918, Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Spodnja Avstrija, 14. junij 2007, Dunaj. Many Austrians apparently viewed Waldheim's life as a parable of their own. [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. 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. It was to damage his reputation for . 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. That was true. We were treating Austria shabbily and finally the State Department forced the Justice Department to negotiate a new arrangement. 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 craft were also inscribed with a written message from then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter. 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. The official Waldheim biography, which he had studiously maintained for decades, was a lie. 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 . Shit is just hard to watch, his jokes were never funny. 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. [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. 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. We wanted the information and we did not want it to fall into the hands of the Soviets. Updates? 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. The same year, he was made an honorary member of K.H.V. When I was in Vienna, Waldheim was Political Director of the Foreign Ministry. William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. Get out! and we went out. Kurt Waldheim . 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. 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. [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. 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. However, China was still opposed to Waldheim and approached several Third World countries seeking challengers. Shortly before his birth the Habsburg monarchy had collapsed, and his father, whose Czech family had been called Watzlawick . 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. The sources, who spoke on . The German occupation in the Balkans was particularly brutal. 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 . [47] The committee also noted that "he only had very minor possibilities to act against the injustices happening". However, he was vetoed by China in the second round. 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 book featured many different people from different countries, the narrator made the odd choice to imitate various accents of the people quoted. 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. [31] In 1980, Waldheim flew to Iran in an attempt to negotiate the release of the American hostages held in Tehran, but Ayatollah Khomeini refused to see him. 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. Omissions? Kurt's father, Walter, migrated to Austria where Christian-Social Party (CSP) activism landed him the plum-gig of school inspector. Waldheims precise involvement in these brutalities would be a matter of debate and investigation for years to come. Austrian political figure and diplomat. The United States and United Kingdom initially supported him in the second round of voting. then Kurt Waldheim tried to seduce me when I was just 14.' Small . Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. Kurt Valdhajm (nem. Their report found no evidence of any personal involvement in those crimes. They claimed that prominent German politicians who were involved in worse things than Waldheim have gotten into the United States. We sent out a delegation headed by the Departments Deputy Legal Adviser to negotiate an arrangement that would include prior notification and so on. ", Kurt Waldheim dies at 88; ex-UN chief hid Nazi past, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/world/europe/14iht-waldheim.3.6141106.html. 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. Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary-general and Austrian president, has died at 88. I didnt deal with him because he was much above my level. 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.". 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 (German pronunciation: [kt valdham]; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. 27. helmikuuta - Yhdistyneiden kansakuntien psihteeri Kurt Waldheim nimitti varatuomari Helvi Sipiln YK:n sosiaaliasioiden apulaispsihteeriksi. Most often they would take the second choice. 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. share. They were also convinced that the U.S. was picking on Austria because it was small. So decisions were made then in the light of the necessities at the time and were perfectly legitimate, I think. 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 did lie about his military service. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. He died of heart failure, the state broadcaster ORF reported. Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, issued a message 'voicing sadness'. Share. - Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032). [59] 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. [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. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, What time is it on the moon? Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. That claim was repeated in two autobiographies and routinely to journalists. After he was elected President, groups in the U.S. began a campaign to put him on the list of people who were banned from entering the U.S. Kurt Waldheim's rebellious, ne'er do well (((son))) But sure, its this kind of ex post facto thing that we got into. Daniel Radcliffe as Howard Stern in photos from the set of "Private Parts" remake. Sklici in opombe Glej tudi . But the weirdest part was his German Imitation was a dead ringer for Kurt . [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. A son, Gerhard, and another daughter, Christa, followed. The Germans were unhappy with our decision. Podgorica, Yugoslavia. Report Save Follow. 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. The rest of the delegation waited a day to catch a direct flight to Washington. His aides at the United Nations even accused the Israeli mission of spreading rumors that he supported the Nazis. 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 . Childhood & Early Life. "[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". But for most of the world, Waldheim was ruined and discredited. Still, the Waldheim affair took up a lot of our time. He probably signed some papers that had to do with deportations and so on. 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. In 1987 the US Justice Department declared Kurt Waldheim a dangerous agent; forever forbidding his re-entry onto US soil. They were sure that this decision had more to with American domestic politics than it did with Waldheim. After losing the presidential election, Waldheim ran for Secretary-General of the United Nations in the 1971 selection. [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. It was a complicated situation because some years earlier the United States had supported . The sad thing was that one of the OSI lawyers on the team was anxious to get home to his family. At one point, years later, Waldheim told an interviewer that he had joined merely to shield his family, a tactic adopted by many living under Nazi occupation. 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 Reply . Despite that, I tried to the best of my ability to remain loyal to my values and to serve my homeland.. report. (Croatia and Bosnia were part of Yugoslavia at the 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. ONCE, in more glorious times, the empire of Austria stretched from Prague and Cracow to Trent, below the Dolomites . 21 June 2007. The ex-concentration guard would then show up on the Austrians doorstep. The Security Council had recommended the appointment on 21 December 1971 and . 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. China cast a single symbolic veto against Waldheim in the first round and voted for him in the second round, handing him an easy victory with 14 of 15 votes on the Security Council. Waldheim had risen to the pinnacle of international diplomacy and was running for president of Austria when his past caught up with him. It took hundreds of thousands of ordinary men - well-meaning but ambitious men like Kurt Waldheim - to make the Third Reich possible. 1. They thought he was treated badly by the U.S. As a result of the ban Waldheim had a tainted presidency. Then we supported him to be Secretary General of the United Nations. There was no comment or statement from the governors office Thursday on the death of Waldheim.). He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. By William Walter Kay Global Research, February 22, 2023 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. The U.S. ban was never lifted. Waldheim did not attend but sent a gift, prompting Schwarzenegger to give what participants described as a very emotional toast in Waldheims honor. Waldheims later claims that he spent the rest of World War II studying law at the University of Vienna were contradicted by the rediscovery in 1986 of documents suggesting that he had been a German army staff officer stationed in the Balkans from 1942 to 1945. Love Fred and the racier shit but I never found any of the various Kurt Waldheim Jr bits funny. For if history teaches us anything, it is that the Hitlers and the Mengeles could never have accomplished their atrocious deeds by themselves. His intelligence regarding work in Greece during World War II raised more questions than answers. 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 remember one case, hed been back and forth to the United States 25 times, and all of a sudden he didnt qualify. Well, there was never really any good evidence that tied Waldheim directly to atrocities. And there was some fear that because of Finlands position, he might be subject to Soviet pressures. As is now known, he fought on the Eastern Front until he was wounded in December 1941. 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. 100 comments. [9] Shortly thereafter he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing. Kurt Waldheim of Austria served as the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations for ten years, succeeding U Thant in 1972. Kurt Waldheim, (born December 21, 1918, Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Austriadied June 14, 2007, Vienna), Austrian diplomat and statesman who served two terms as the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), from 1972 to 1981. The film "Waldheim's Waltz" shows exactly the opposite. He was a staff officer. 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. Kurt Waldheim was appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations for a five-year term beginning on 1 January 1972. During his tenure, he won praise for his handling of negotiations to establish a U.N. peacekeeping mission after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, and during an unsuccessful attempt to mediate the U.S. hostage crisis in Tehran in 1980, he braved an angry mob of Iranians waving wooden legs and arm stumps (supposed victims of torture under the rule of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi). save. [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. 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 retired in 1992, never again to assume a public role outside Austria. 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. [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. [22] His diplomatic efforts particularly in the Middle East were overshadowed by the diplomacy of then U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. Of course, this made the Austrians very unhappy. 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. Reply. 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. "We lived in daily apprehension.". The veto duel between China and the United States lasted a record 16 rounds. Theres an office in the Justice Department, the Office of Special Investigations, which is dedicated to uncovering former Nazis. Kurt Waldheim Jr. Kurt Waldheim, (born December 21, 1918, Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Austriadied June 14, 2007, Vienna), Austrian diplomat and statesman who served two terms as the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), from 1972 to 1981. Waldheims initial denial of his Nazi past and obfuscation mirrored that of a nation. During his campaign for the presidency in 1985, what became known internationally as the "Waldheim affair" began. 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. Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. He managed to continue his studies by working as a Latin and Greek tutor and borrowing funds from relatives.[8]. [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. Waldheims father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. Those who relate this film only to current problems . They argued that if Waldheim were President of Germany, the U.S. wouldnt do such a thing because you need Germany. Escola Roncagli; Waldheim; German Col. Hans Herbert Macholtz and General of the 7th SS-Division, General Artur Phelps. 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. M. Kurt Waldheim a entam son deuxime mandat de cinq ans en tant que . Many were displaced persons at the end of the war and ended up in Austria. Last week, former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim died at the age of 88. By early 1948, the UN War Crimes Commission listed him as a suspected war criminal subject to trial. 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. BODDE: Kurt Waldheim was President of Austria. Kurt Waldheim synonyms, Kurt Waldheim pronunciation, Kurt Waldheim translation, English dictionary definition of Kurt Waldheim. 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. But what could I do? [7] Following the annexation, Waldheim's father was briefly arrested by the Gestapo and dismissed from his post, while Waldheim's scholarship was cancelled. He went through my fingers. [23], On 11 September 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin sent a telegram to Waldheim, copies of which went to Yasser Arafat and Golda Meir. [24] Amin also called "to expel Israel from the United Nations and to send all the Israelis to Britain, which bore the guilt for creating the Jewish state". Probably. However, first and foremost, it is a film about the process of the affair. 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. From left to right, Italian Cdmr. After a period as director general for political affairs in the Austrian Foreign Ministry, he became his countrys ambassador to the UN (196468, 197071). THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. 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.. [28], In 1977, Waldheim recorded a greeting for the Voyager Golden Records, a pair of discs containing sounds and images representing the diversity of life and culture on Earth, which were launched into deep space on the Voyager spacecraft. UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A secret U.N. War Crimes Commission file on Kurt Waldheim is based on Yugoslav accusations that the former U.N. secretary-general was involved in Nazi reprisals against civilians, sources said Friday. In March 1936, the Schuschnigg government passed a law mandating a period of military service for prospective civil servants. [52:55, April] Kurt Waldheim Jr. and "Guess Who's The Jew," Washington DC pro-choice rally, Reporter Jim Jensen parody. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and married a daughter of the mayor. [58], In his speech at the cathedral, Federal President Heinz Fischer called Waldheim "a great Austrian" who had been wrongfully accused of having committed war crimes. SPIRO: My job was to track down members of the former German intelligence services in Austria. 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. 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. He is a figurehead and spends a great amount of time visiting other countries. Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) served as secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Anyone can read what you share. The Pope received him, and that got people unhappy here. I had either to continue to serve or be executed. Waldheim won an accidental victory in the third round of voting when those three permanent members failed to coordinate their vetoes and all abstained. 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. Under U.S. law the Justice Department makes the decision. 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. Then it is easy to make references to the present. 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