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 . From his youth, Waldheim was distinguished by his unusual height of 1.92m (6ft 4in). Waldheims initial denial of his Nazi past and obfuscation mirrored that of a nation. Ron Lauder, a political appointee, was Ambassador to Austria at the time. Kurt's father, Walter, migrated to Austria where Christian-Social Party (CSP) activism landed him the plum-gig of school inspector. However, first and foremost, it is a film about the process of the affair. The embassy dealt with him all the time. In 1987 the US Justice Department declared Kurt Waldheim a dangerous agent; forever forbidding his re-entry onto US soil. hide. And although the scandal around him kicked up new poisonous clouds of anti-Semitism, when he finally left public life, in disgrace, Austria also began a slow process of recognizing its sins. [47] The committee also noted that "he only had very minor possibilities to act against the injustices happening". Corrections? But what could I do? 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. That claim was repeated in two autobiographies and routinely to journalists. On 19 August 1944, he married Elisabeth Ritschel in Vienna; their first daughter, Lieselotte, was born the following year. The Waldheim Waltz: Directed by Ruth Beckermann. Waldheim admitted that he had not been candid about his past but disclaimed all knowledge of or participation in wartime atrocities. What the U.N. needs is a quiet approach, he said. Waldheim had risen to the pinnacle of international diplomacy and was running for president of Austria when his past caught up with him. [29][30], Waldheim was the first Secretary-General to visit North Korea, in 1979. 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. Then in November 1938, he enrolled in the SA, the paramilitary Nazi organization of storm troopers. Then, in March 1986, during the campaign, Waldheim was hit with damning disclosures. The United States and United Kingdom initially supported him in the second round of voting. 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. [9] Shortly thereafter he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing. His intelligence regarding work in Greece during World War II raised more questions than answers. 8/13/86 Rafael Pineda, S.Berkley, Kurt Waldheim, Lesb. The case that defined the legacy and memory of the longtime diplomat was built around a grainy black-and-white photograph that showed a young Waldheim -- tall, lean and uniformed -- as he fought for a Nazi army unit blamed for wartime atrocities in the Balkans. He was a staff officer. 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. Four years after returning from New York to Austria, Waldheim was hot on the campaign trail, all but certain of an . Robert Edwin Herzstein, a historian and professor at the University of South Carolina, played a crucial role in uncovering Waldheim's Nazi past through archival research. 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. The United States became the third country granted access to the file. The official Waldheim biography, which he had studiously maintained for decades, was a lie. Despite resistance from new member China, Waldheim was elected secretary-general of the U.N. and assumed office in January 1972. On a personal note, when I served in Vienna, the Chancellors aide was a good friend of mine. [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. After the war, Lohr was condemned and executed as a war criminal. 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. [23], On 11 September 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin sent a telegram to Waldheim, copies of which went to Yasser Arafat and Golda Meir. [56] He died on 14 June 2007, at the age of 88 from heart failure. [42], Because the revelations leading to the Waldheim affair came shortly before the presidential election, there has been speculation about the background of the affair. 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. 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. Waldheim ran for an unprecedented third full term as Secretary-General in the 1981 selection. The World Jewish Congress was actively involved in the campaign to expose Waldheim's war crimes and ban him from . I said Kurt Waldheim was the perfect Viennese head waiter type, and what the UN needed more than anything else at that time was a Viennese head waiter type as Secretary General. But the disclosures sparked a nationalist backlash in Austria that aided Waldheim's election as president. 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. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Waldheim had unsuccessfully sought election as President of Austria in 1971, but his second attempt on 8 June 1986 proved successful. Fischer also praised Waldheim for his efforts to solve international crises and for his contributions to world peace. Kurt Waldheim's rebellious, ne'er do well (((son))) That was true. 450. 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. [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. But for whatever reason, he and thousands of others eluded prosecution in the chaos of postwar Europe. 21 June 2007. The veto duel between China and the United States lasted a record 16 rounds. Anyone can read what you share. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . We were treating Austria shabbily and finally the State Department forced the Justice Department to negotiate a new arrangement. At the U.N., Kurt Waldheim was known as "the man who the world trusts.". Kurt Valdhajm (nem. Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, accused by Jewish groups of participating in Nazi war crimes, today was barred from entering the United States because of evidence that he persecuted people . In 1994, Pope John Paul II awarded Waldheim a knighthood in the Order of Pius IX and his wife a papal honor. Kurt Josef Waldheim ; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Kurt Josef Waldheim (German pronunciation: [kt valdham]; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. [52], Additional allegations of participation in Nazi crimes, with citations to captured Nazi documents and other records, were leveled in a 1993 book by Eli Rosenbaum, the former U.S. federal prosecutor who had directed the World Jewish Congress investigation that led to the New York Times' initial exposure of Waldheim's hidden Nazi-era past in 1986. Han var Frenta nationernas generalsekreterare 1972-1981 och sterrikes frbundspresident 1986-1992. Our response to both sides was that this was a legal decision that would be made by the Justice Department based on U.S. law. 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. Kurt Waldheim . 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. - Date based on span of years Waldheim served as Secretary General of the United Nations. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary-general and Austrian president, has died at 88. 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). 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. Noun 1. "Our family was under constant surveillance," Waldheim wrote. "Waldheim was clearly not a psychopath like Dr. Josef Mengele nor a hate-filled racist like Adolf Hitler," Herzstein wrote. Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army as a volunteer (193637) before he began to study for a diplomatic career. 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 A ntonio Guterres, the ninth secretary general of the United Nations, is good at bleating globalist platitudes but has a past that appears free of controversy.That was not the case with the fourth U.N. secretary general, Kurt Waldheim. A son, Gerhard, and another daughter, Christa, followed. I was listening to an Audiobook recently, specifically the book KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann. He was the world's top diplo. From left to right, Italian Cdmr. The controversy surrounding my person in and outside Austria often hurt me, he said. He was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. They were also convinced that the U.S. was picking on Austria because it was small. But for most of the world, Waldheim was ruined and discredited. Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, issued a message 'voicing sadness'. However, he was vetoed by China in the second round. VIENNA (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, whose career was tainted by disclosures of his Nazi past, was buried in a state funeral on Saturday. During his campaign to become president in 1986, it became public that . Both were interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy. 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. During his campaign for the presidency in 1985, what became known internationally as the "Waldheim affair" began. 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. Wikipedia je trna znamka neprofitne organizacije Wikimedia Foundation Inc.; Pravilnik o zasebnosti 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. 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. Probably. In the first round of voting, Waldheim lost to Salim by one vote. Following the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, his father changed the family surname to . The rest of the delegation waited a day to catch a direct flight to Washington. 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. 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. A man named [Allan] Ryan headed the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in the Justice Department that went after the Nazis. Many of them were Yugoslavs or Romanians and all of them were old. The Austrians would be embarrassed, because it would look like the U.S. was sending another Nazi back to Austria. The Pope received him, and that got people unhappy here. The World Jewish Congress was particularly active in pushing this, and Secretary [of State George] Shultz had absolutely no sympathy for Waldheim himself. Song, Little Ricky 8/14/86 Susan Berkley, Cindi Lauper Record, Phila. [1] He was the eldest child of Walter Watzlawik, a schoolmaster of Czech origin,[2] and his wife Josefine Petrasch. (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. This became the "Waldheim Affair" which was important in exposing the criminal role . Posted by 5 days ago. Welfia Klosterneuburg, a Roman Catholic student fraternity part of the Austrian Cartellverband. Knfel, Ulrike and Kraske, Marion (4 April 2008), Wiesenthal, Simon (1999) "The Waldheim Case" in. 28. helmikuuta San Josssa Kaliforniassa alkoi oikeudenkynti professori Angela Davisia vastaan. [17] According to Eli Rosenbaum, in 1944, Waldheim reviewed and approved a packet of antisemitic propaganda leaflets to be dropped behind Soviet lines, one of which ended: "Enough of the Jewish war, kill the Jews, come over. Secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-81). With Kurt Waldheim, Ruth Beckermann, Yasser Arafat, Hubertus Czernin. [26], Waldheim ran for a second term in the 1976 UN Secretary-General selection. That position earned Wiesenthal the enmity of some Jewish groups. Kurt Waldheim, who was president of Austria from 1986 to 1992, systematically lied about his wartime past. 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 . [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. He served in Paris (194851) and was head of the personnel department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna from 1951 to 1955. 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 . 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. "[35], A short time later, beginning on 4 March 1986, the World Jewish Congress alleged that Waldheim had lied about his service in the mounted corps of the SA and had concealed his service as a special missions staff officer (Ordonnanzoffizier) for Germany's Army Group E in Yugoslavia and Greece, from 1942 to 1944, based primarily on captured German wartime records held at the United States National Archives in Washington, DC, and in other archives. . Political career. Kurt Josef Waldheim (German pronunciation: [kt valdham]; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Once I went to see him when I was in Austria for these COCOM [Coordinating Commission on Multilateral Export Controls] negotiations. When I met Kurt Waldheim in Vienna in 1994, the Balkans were doubly at issue, a generation apart. I had either to continue to serve or be executed. Ironically, Thomas Klestil was elected President when Waldheim completed his term of office. China was determined to unseat him this time and lined up a strong candidate in Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania. [52:55, April] Kurt Waldheim Jr. and "Guess Who's The Jew," Washington DC pro-choice rally, Reporter Jim Jensen parody. We wanted the information and we did not want it to fall into the hands of the Soviets. Waldheim won an accidental victory in the third round of voting when those three permanent members failed to coordinate their vetoes and all abstained. 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. Omissions? 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. And there was some fear that because of Finlands position, he might be subject to Soviet pressures. Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian-born lawyer, soldier, politician, and envoy who served as the 4 th Secretary-General of the UN and the 9 th President of Austria. The commission did not say Waldheim personally participated in the bloodshed, and he seized on that to claim that he had essentially been exonerated. Japan and Syria were the only two countries that laid wreaths on his grave. 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. They thought he was treated badly by the U.S. As a result of the ban Waldheim had a tainted presidency. And fellow Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger invited Waldheim to his 1986 wedding to Maria Shriver, a month after the disclosures about Waldheims Nazi past. Theres an office in the Justice Department, the Office of Special Investigations, which is dedicated to uncovering former Nazis. Other pieces of evidence included logs and intelligence reports, purportedly bearing his signature, describing mass deportations of Greek Jews to death camps. 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. - Photo agency: Newsweek. 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 . The ex-concentration guard would then show up on the Austrians doorstep. 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. Still, the Waldheim affair took up a lot of our time. Countries refused to deal with him, and he was disinvited from numerous ceremonial functions. Some Germans had stayed in Austria partly because they thought that the Occupation, which was not called Occupation, would be less rigorous and less de-Nazifying than it was in Germany. 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. On June 8th, 1986, Kurt Waldheim was elected President of Austria. 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.". [44][55], After his term ended in 1992, Waldheim did not seek re-election. 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. He was 88. Would we have done this to the German Chancellor? There was a Finnish diplomat named Jacobson who was Finnish and Jewish, who was another candidate running for Secretary General of the UN. [22] His diplomatic efforts particularly in the Middle East were overshadowed by the diplomacy of then U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. Austrian state media said Waldheim, who was hospitalized last month with a fever-causing infection, died of heart failure in Vienna. He was reelected in 1976 despite some opposition from less-developed countries, but a third term was vetoed by the Chinese government in 1981. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. 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. 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. The German occupation in the Balkans was particularly brutal. He won election to the Austrian presidency in June 1986 for a six-year term. 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