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. 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. Reply . (Croatia and Bosnia were part of Yugoslavia at the time.). Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. The Austrian government, hoping to put the matter to rest, appointed a special historical commission to review the evidence against Waldheim. I was horrified. Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. In 1994, Pope John Paul II awarded Waldheim a knighthood in the Order of Pius IX and his wife a papal honor. save. 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.". - Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032). He was a staff officer. Israeli ambassador Yehuda Zvi Blum denied the charges, saying, "We don't believe Waldheim ever supported the Nazis and we never said he did. Entire villages were wiped out by Lohrs men. Among the deeds in which he was implicated, U.S. officials said, were the transport of civilians to Nazi slave labor camps; the deportation of Jews from the Greek islands and from Banja Luka, in Serbian Bosnia, to death camps; reprisal executions of hostages; and the approval and dissemination of propaganda calling for the elimination of the Jews. He won election to the Austrian presidency in June 1986 for a six-year term. Well, there was never really any good evidence that tied Waldheim directly to atrocities. The Security Council had recommended the appointment on 21 December 1971 and . We wanted the information and we did not want it to fall into the hands of the Soviets. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. There was no comment or statement from the governors office Thursday on the death of Waldheim.). There were a lot of them around. 5), page 188. 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 . Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. 28. helmikuuta San Josssa Kaliforniassa alkoi oikeudenkynti professori Angela Davisia vastaan. Pamphlet. 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. Many of them were Yugoslavs or Romanians and all of them were old. When he was Austrian Consul General in Los Angeles, Klestil developed a close relationship with the so-called California mafia that [President Ronald] Reagan brought to Washington. The World Jewish Congress was particularly active in pushing this, and Secretary [of State George] Shultz had absolutely no sympathy for Waldheim himself. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. 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). 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 . 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. Waldheims UN secretaryship beginning in 1972 was characterized as efficient and ministerial. Talented and ambitious, he rose rapidly through the ranks, and by 1955, when Allied occupation of Austria ended, was dispatched to the United Nations, taking a seat in an institution to which he would be repeatedly assigned in a long diplomatic career that included a two-year stint as Austrian foreign minister. The United States became the third country granted access to the file. Only after a blue-ribbon historical commission concluded in 1988 that Waldheim knew about and failed to prevent deportations and other atrocities did the former United Nations secretary-general admit that he knew what the Nazi regime was doing. Waldheim je bil generalni sekretar OZN (1972-1981) in predsednik Avstrije (1986-1992). 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. 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 . By William Walter Kay Global Research, February 22, 2023 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. English: Kurt Waldheim, secretary-general of the United Nations, during a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York City No less a figure than the late Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi hunter from Vienna, refused to label Waldheim a war criminal, although he was certain Waldheim knew more than he admitted. Shultz did not agree and got angry, so he threw us out of his office. His father was of Czech origin and was employed as a Roman Catholic inspector of schools. [53] In a letter to the editor published in Foreign Affairs magazine two years after Rosenbaum's book was released, former Finnish ambassador to the U.N. Max Jakobson (one of the candidates whom the USSR had vetoed) wrote, "The Soviets knew everything about Waldheim. Anyone can read what you share. Han var Frenta nationernas generalsekreterare 1972-1981 och sterrikes frbundspresident 1986-1992. The official . 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. 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. Despite that, I tried to the best of my ability to remain loyal to my values and to serve my homeland.. [56] He died on 14 June 2007, at the age of 88 from heart failure. Once I went to see him when I was in Austria for these COCOM [Coordinating Commission on Multilateral Export Controls] negotiations. "[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. When defending himself against assertions that he had links to the Nazis, Waldheim always asserted that he never had belonged to a Nazi-affiliated group. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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. When I met Kurt Waldheim in Vienna in 1994, the Balkans were doubly at issue, a generation apart. 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. Normally thats what the Austrian President does. Waldheims survivors include his wife, Elisabeth, and three children. Herbert John Spiro, interviewed beginning in April 1994, served from 1945-65 as Chief of Counterintelligence at U.S. Headquarters in Vienna. "@Anti_PC_Culture @Cl3v3rGurl @CissyScum You're where comedic timing (and physical fitness) go to die." Waldheim ran for an unprecedented third full term as Secretary-General in the 1981 selection. 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. Countries refused to deal with him, and he was disinvited from numerous ceremonial functions. [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. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Share. They thought he was treated badly by the U.S. As a result of the ban Waldheim had a tainted presidency. After recovering, he returned to active duty in the spring of 1942 and was seconded to the service of Gen. Alexander Lohr, a fellow Austrian who led a string of brutal campaigns against Yugoslav partisans and dispatched some 40,000 Greek Jews to Auschwitz. [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. A fireball can never be helpful in this situation. 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. 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. OSI would track down a former concentration camp guard who lied on his immigration forms. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. With Kurt Waldheim, Ruth Beckermann, Yasser Arafat, Hubertus Czernin. [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. - Title based on information from slide mount and other caption information provided by the photographer. In 1971 he ran for president on the Peoples Party ticket but lost. The rest of the delegation waited a day to catch a direct flight to Washington. 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. 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. [7] Following the annexation, Waldheim's father was briefly arrested by the Gestapo and dismissed from his post, while Waldheim's scholarship was cancelled. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). 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. 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. Under U.S. law the Justice Department makes the decision. A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II . 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 . 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. All of a sudden, we had this case that involved the President of Austria. Shultz said, Get out! Thu 14 Jun 2007 19.08 EDT. The German occupation in the Balkans was particularly brutal. There was testimony that he had roughed up some of the POWs. Kurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and statesman who served two terms as the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), from 1972 to 1981. 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. [14], Waldheim's name appears on the Wehrmacht's "honour list" of those responsible for the militarily successful operation. Four years after returning from New York to Austria, Waldheim was hot on the campaign trail, all but certain of an . He continued to maintain a few important friends, who in turn suffered for their association. He went through my fingers. The U.S. ban was never lifted. 463. He, and by extension, Austria, were ostracized and isolated. In March 1936, the Schuschnigg government passed a law mandating a period of military service for prospective civil servants. [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). [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. On June 8th, 1986, Kurt Waldheim was elected President of Austria. The film "Waldheim's Waltz" shows exactly the opposite. The embassy dealt with him all the time. Thomas Klestil, Waldheims successor as President, was just completing his tour as Ambassador to the U.S. when the decision was made and he was crushed. Reply. Waldheim also took a special interest in the future of Namibia and South Africa. [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. (Waldheim, second from left, with Italian General Ercole Roncaglia, Col. Hans Herbert Macholz, and SS-GruppenfhrerArtur Phleps at Podgorica airfield, May 1943.). Read more stories about World War II. The commission did not say Waldheim personally participated in the bloodshed, and he seized on that to claim that he had essentially been exonerated. Kurt Josef Waldheim (German pronunciation: [kt valdham]; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Unable to win a third term as secretary-general, Waldheim left the U.N. in 1982 and served as a visiting professor of diplomacy at Georgetown University in Washington for the next two years. This marked the first time that a head of state had been put on an immigration watchlist. And there was some fear that because of Finlands position, he might be subject to Soviet pressures. Then we supported him to be Secretary General of the United Nations. His family was with him when he succumbed to cardiovascular failure. After six weeks of deadlock, Waldheim and Salim both withdrew from the race. Today's Highlight in History: On March 10, 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, who was the Soviet Union's . The World Jewish Congress was actively involved in the campaign to expose Waldheim's war crimes and ban him from . Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army . 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. That was true. 1. Posted by 4 days ago. The World Jewish Congress and an Austrian investigative magazine produced documents detailing his membership in Nazi organizations and his military service in the Balkans. Waldheim later stated that "he did not know about the murder of civilians there". In the first round of voting, Waldheim lost to Salim by one vote. But he was an important guy. After a distinguished diplomatic career, culminating in 10 years as UN Secretary General, Dr Kurt Waldheim found himself embroiled in bitter controversy over his war record more than 40 years after the end of the World War II. The Waldheim affair triggered a fundamental debate in Austria about the countrys past during World War II. 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. "[40] He said that he had never fired a shot or even seen a partisan. Reply . [46] The International Committee in February 1988 concluded that Waldheim had been "in close proximity to some Nazi atrocities, knew they were going on and made no attempt to stop them". The Austrians would be embarrassed, because it would look like the U.S. was sending another Nazi back to Austria. The veto duel between China and the United States lasted a record 16 rounds. Austrian political figure and diplomat. In 1956 he was made Ambassador to Canada, returning to the Ministry in 1960, after which he became the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations in 1964. They told us that they didnt know about these peoples past and why should they be saddled with former Romanians or Yugoslavs. 463. It was odd. Klestils friendships didnt do him much good. 3. Waldheims father, Walther, was briefly jailed because of his anti-Nazi views and stripped of his job. But thanks to his parents' middle-class standing, he and his brother and sister suffered few of the economic deprivations that most Austrians endured during the 1920s. Following the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, his father changed the family surname to . Waldheims initial denial of his Nazi past and obfuscation mirrored that of a nation. Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. His aides at the United Nations even accused the Israeli mission of spreading rumors that he supported the Nazis. In December, he was wounded but returned to service in 1942. The ex-concentration guard would then show up on the Austrians doorstep. 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.. 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. as zadnje spremembe strani: 14:46, 24. februar 2023. But whatever their units, they were bad guys. Kurt Waldheim, a diplomat with a selective memory, died on June 14th, aged 88. To deduce that knowledge constitutes some kind of crime is simply not correct, he told an Austrian television interviewer. 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. 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. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith surnamed Vaclavik. Kurt's father, Walter, migrated to Austria where Christian-Social Party (CSP) activism landed him the plum-gig of school inspector. [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. For much of his adulthood, Waldheim claimed that he was drafted into the German army after Adolf Hitler occupied Austria but sat out most of the war, attending law school in Vienna, because of a shrapnel wound he suffered on the Eastern Front in 1941. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. (Later, when he was running for governor of California, Schwarzeneggers aides said he realized that the invitation and the toast had been a stupid mistake, one that -- had he known then what he knew later -- he would not have committed. [23] While in Tehran, it was announced that an attempt on Waldheim's life had been foiled. [21], As secretary-general from 1972 onward, Waldheim opened and addressed a number of major international conferences convened under United Nations auspices. With Howard Stern, Dominic Barbara, Richard Belzer, Downtown Julie Brown. Office of Special Investigations, United States Department of Justice Criminal Division internal investigative report: Eli M. Rosenbaum, "The Kurt Waldheim Affair," in Ronald S. Lauder (Foreword) and Menachem Z. Rosensaft (Editor). More posts from the howardstern community. 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. 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. They would have the person renounce his or her U.S. citizenship. "[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. 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 Josef Waldheim was born on December 21 1918 at Tulln, near Vienna. 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. Waldheim was a member of the Austrian People's Party, a World War II Veteran and . [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. Kurt Waldheim: distinguished diplomat who fell from grace. "But this nonguilt must not be confused with innocence. Secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-81). While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. There are 296 days left in the year. 1989 Vol. hide. Yet no government pressed to bring Waldheim to account or even to reveal his unsavory history. [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. 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