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). The former Secretary General of the United Nations and Ambassador to France and Canada was initially seen as an obvious choice for the position, which is primarily a ceremonial role. After the war, Lohr was condemned and executed as a war criminal. It was intended to prompt us to look into the causes, course and consequences of the Waldheim affair. Many of them were Yugoslavs or Romanians and all of them were old. To make matters worse, the Justice Department would cut corners. [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. 3. He had been stationed in Yugoslavia when atrocities were committed. 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. 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. The book also alleged that the Soviet Union was aware of Waldheim's alleged involvement in Nazi crimes and that, after vetoing other candidates in order to get Waldheim installed as U.N. Secretary General in 1972, used that information to extract concessions at the United Nations that facilitated KGB espionage in the United States, and that the CIA's failure to anticipate this possibility was a major failure for the intelligence agency. The controversy surrounding Waldheim was particularly problematic for Austria, forcing a tardy reckoning of the nations complicity in Nazi crimes. Waldheims father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. 27. helmikuuta - Yhdistyneiden kansakuntien psihteeri Kurt Waldheim nimitti varatuomari Helvi Sipiln YK:n sosiaaliasioiden apulaispsihteeriksi. The Austrians, of course, were beside themselves. After six weeks of deadlock, Waldheim and Salim both withdrew from the race. The sad thing was that one of the OSI lawyers on the team was anxious to get home to his family. When I was in Vienna, Waldheim was Political Director of the Foreign Ministry. Hnt syytettiin osallisuudesta murhaan sek salaliittoon ja sieppaukseen, joiden . 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. 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. From left to right, Italian Cdmr. Kurt Waldheim: distinguished diplomat who fell from grace. Shultz did not agree and got angry, so he threw us out of his office. M. Kurt Waldheim a entam son deuxime mandat de cinq ans en tant que . 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 . They argued that if Waldheim were President of Germany, the U.S. wouldnt do such a thing because you need Germany. William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. Consequently, following his graduation Waldheim volunteered for a 12-month term of enlistment in the Austrian Army, and was posted to the 1st Dragoon Regiment on his 18th birthday. [49][50] The 232-page internal Department of Justice 9 April 1987 investigative report was released in 1994 by that agency, and it is available at the agency's website. *** In 1987 the US Justice Department declared Kurt Waldheim a dangerous agent; forever forbidding his re-entry onto US soil. [34], Waldheim had previously claimed to have received a medical discharge after being wounded in winter 1942. Visitor's guide to United Nations in the time of Kurt Waldheim 1973. by Kurt Waldheim | Jan 1, 1973. In the meantime, Congress passed a law, the Holtzman Act, named after a Congresswoman who introduced it. 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. 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. "[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. 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. Kurt's father, Walter, migrated to Austria where Christian-Social Party (CSP) activism landed him the plum-gig of school inspector. Podgorica, Yugoslavia. [44][55], After his term ended in 1992, Waldheim did not seek re-election. His father was of Czech origin and was employed as a Roman Catholic inspector of schools. Then we supported him to be Secretary General of the United Nations. [21], As secretary-general from 1972 onward, Waldheim opened and addressed a number of major international conferences convened under United Nations auspices. 28. helmikuuta San Josssa Kaliforniassa alkoi oikeudenkynti professori Angela Davisia vastaan. He came back and he and I went to see the Secretary. Instead Waldheim, a hardworking and talented diplomat, was allowed to rise to the pinnacle of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, and then go on to serve two terms as secretary general, from 1972 to 1982. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Also present was Luis Durnwalder, governor of the Italian province of South Tyrol. "His very ordinariness, in fact, may be the most important thing about him. BODDE: Kurt Waldheim was President of Austria. 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. Shit is just hard to watch, his jokes were never funny. It was to damage his reputation for . [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. In 1987 the US Justice Department declared Kurt Waldheim a dangerous agent; forever forbidding his re-entry onto US soil. It was a complicated situation because some years earlier the United States had supported . So when the negotiations were completed he flew to London to pick up a plane that would get him home sooner. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. But whatever their units, they were bad guys. 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. 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. 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. He was there when Hitlers forces invaded and annexed Austria in the 1938 Anschluss. They were sure that this decision had more to with American domestic politics than it did with Waldheim. [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, 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. [26], Waldheim ran for a second term in the 1976 UN Secretary-General selection. Donald Trump Jr. claims US train network is being sabotaged as revenge for Nord Stream 2 after derailments in Ohio and Michigan . Kurt Waldheim, who was president of Austria from 1986 to 1992, systematically lied about his wartime past. Israeli ambassador Yehuda Zvi Blum denied the charges, saying, "We don't believe Waldheim ever supported the Nazis and we never said he did. Welfia Klosterneuburg, a Roman Catholic student fraternity part of the Austrian Cartellverband. 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. Thu 14 Jun 2007 19.08 EDT. They would have the person renounce his or her U.S. citizenship. Despite resistance from new member China, Waldheim was elected secretary-general of the U.N. and assumed office in January 1972. Congress had passed the Holtzman Act, named after Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, to legalize the expulsion and prevention of suspected Nazi criminals from the U.S. thirty years after the end of WWII. "[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". SPIRO: My job was to track down members of the former German intelligence services in Austria. Kurt Waldheim dies at 88; ex-UN chief hid Nazi past 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. So far, the Justice Department was acting completely aboveboard. We soon found that we couldnt get Germany back on its feet without tapping the expertise of people who had been party members. Politics portal; Kurt Josef Waldheim (German: [kt valtham] (); 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat.Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. 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). While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia as an . He, and by extension, Austria, were ostracized and isolated. hide. 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 . 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 In the immediate aftermath of the fighting, an Allied war crimes commission recommended that he be tried as a war criminal. [40] His former immediate superior at the time stated that Waldheim had "remained confined to a desk". 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. Despite his humble beginnings, Waldheim was able to pursue . He was 88. Fischer also praised Waldheim for his efforts to solve international crises and for his contributions to world peace. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Omissions? 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. The official . 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. Kurt Waldheim Jr. They were also convinced that the U.S. was picking on Austria because it was small. 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. After finishing his studies in law at the University of Vienna Waldheim joined the Austrian diplomatic service in 1945. Kurt Waldheim. 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. Report Save Follow. Reply . [3] Watzlawick (original Czech spelling Vclavk) changed his name to "Waldheim" that year as the Habsburg monarchy collapsed and eventually rose to become superintendent of schools for the Tulln District, attaining the rank of Regierungsrat (government councillor). This marked the first time that a head of state had been put on an immigration watchlist. 1. But what could I do? 1989 Vol. "Kurt Waldheim did not, in fact, order, incite or personally commit what is commonly called a war crime," Herzstein wrote. 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. It was odd. Knfel, Ulrike and Kraske, Marion (4 April 2008), Wiesenthal, Simon (1999) "The Waldheim Case" in. Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. When they emigrated to the United States they hid their Nazi past. Theres no doubt about that. The official Waldheim biography, which he had studiously maintained for decades, was a lie. He was a staff officer. With Kurt Waldheim, Ruth Beckermann, Yasser Arafat, Hubertus Czernin. In December, he was wounded but returned to service in 1942. So even if they were Romanians or Yugoslavs, if they emigrated to the U.S. from Austria they could be deported back to Austria. (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. He apparently gained the sympathy of the Austrian electorate and won the presidency with 54% of the vote. An international investigation by a committee of historians cleared Waldheim of complicity in war crimes, but as president he was a rather isolated figure on the international scene. [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's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. 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. The Waldheim Waltz: Directed by Ruth Beckermann. All of a sudden, we had this case that involved the President of Austria. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith surnamed Vaclavik. [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. 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 . By early 1948, the UN War Crimes Commission listed him as a suspected war criminal subject to trial. They thought he was treated badly by the U.S. As a result of the ban Waldheim had a tainted presidency. 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. We have many differences with him, but that isn't one of them. Europe and others push for a standard lunar time zone, Dr. Simi is a TikTok star. 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 banned from the United States for his whole term of office, and because he wasnt allowed into the United States, most other major countries did not invite him for official visits. Kurt Waldheim, a diplomat with a selective memory, died on June 14th, aged 88. Klestils friendships didnt do him much good. [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 was 88. Wikipedia je trna znamka neprofitne organizacije Wikimedia Foundation Inc.; Pravilnik o zasebnosti Himself / Kurt Waldheim Jr. Petey Greene's Washington: 1981: TV Series: Himself: Archive Footage . By William Walter Kay Global Research, February 22, 2023 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. ONCE, in more glorious times, the empire of Austria stretched from Prague and Cracow to Trent, below the Dolomites . Once I went to see him when I was in Austria for these COCOM [Coordinating Commission on Multilateral Export Controls] negotiations. Secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-81). 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. [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 same year, he was made an honorary member of K.H.V. He was 88. Their report found no evidence of any personal involvement in those crimes. Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. With Howard Stern, Dominic Barbara, Richard Belzer, Downtown Julie Brown. [12] In 1986, Waldheim said that he had served only as an interpreter and a clerk and had no knowledge either of reprisals against local Serb civilians or of massacres in neighboring provinces of Yugoslavia. In 1986, four years after his tenure as the UN Secretary General, Kurt Waldheim made a bid to lead his native Austria. On 19 August 1944, he married Elisabeth Ritschel in Vienna; their first daughter, Lieselotte, was born the following year. 450. In 1939, Waldheim was drafted into the German Wehrmacht. 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. Did he know that some bad things were going on? 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. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . I suspect that he was more concerned with the hostility that he would face in Vienna in the wake of a ban. The Austrians would be embarrassed, because it would look like the U.S. was sending another Nazi back to Austria. 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.. 5), page 188. [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. 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. As is now known, he fought on the Eastern Front until he was wounded in December 1941. The decision to ban Waldheim was made by Attorney General [Edwin] Meese and Secretary Shultz went along with it. The World Jewish Congress and an Austrian investigative magazine produced documents detailing his membership in Nazi organizations and his military service in the Balkans. 463. Kurt Waldheim. It was a period when the world body was increasingly dominated by third world rhetoric and paralyzed by disagreements between the superpowers. His intelligence regarding work in Greece during World War II raised more questions than answers. Han var Frenta nationernas generalsekreterare 1972-1981 och sterrikes frbundspresident 1986-1992. Despite his humble beginnings, Waldheim was able to pursue university studies in law and diplomacy in Vienna. 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. 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. 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. Shortly afterwards, he ran and was defeated in the 1971 Austrian presidential elections. 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. 21 June 2007. Waldheim was a member of the Austrian People's Party (sterreichische Volkspartei, or VP) and served as foreign minister. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. [1] He was the eldest child of Walter Watzlawik, a schoolmaster of Czech origin,[2] and his wife Josefine Petrasch. [39], Waldheim called the allegations, which grew in magnitude in the ensuing months, "pure lies and malicious acts". 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. Japan and Syria were the only two countries that laid wreaths on his grave. Waldheim had served a painful term as Austrian President, marked from beginning . The Pope received him, and that got people unhappy here. Reply. 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. Waldheim also took a special interest in the future of Namibia and South Africa. He died of heart failure, the state broadcaster ORF reported. 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. Political career. 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. 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. 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. Well, there was never really any good evidence that tied Waldheim directly to atrocities. Obituary: Kurt Waldheim. 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. 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. Waldheim was a member of the Austrian People's Party, a World War II Veteran and . 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. [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. 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. Janks go on a date with John DeBella's wife (which Howard predicted would happen in his battle with DeBella in Philadelphia), the "Gross Video Contest" winners, Boy-Gary dressed as an ape and . 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. 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. Still, the Waldheim affair took up a lot of our time. Waldheim, Kurt. VIENNA, Austria - Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German army unit that . Like many ambitious people, he loved publicity. Kurt Valdhajm (nem. In 1994, Pope John Paul II awarded Waldheim a knighthood in the Order of Pius IX and his wife a papal honor. The Germans were unhappy with our decision. He served in Paris (194851) and was head of the personnel department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna from 1951 to 1955. "[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. That was true. 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. 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. Countries refused to deal with him, and he was disinvited from numerous ceremonial functions. - Photo agency: Newsweek. They told us that they didnt know about these peoples past and why should they be saddled with former Romanians or Yugoslavs. 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. "[18], In 1945, Waldheim surrendered to British forces in Carinthia, at which point he said he had fled his command post within Army Group E, where he was serving with General Alexander Lhr.[19]. Then in November 1938, he enrolled in the SA, the paramilitary Nazi organization of storm troopers. He did lie about his military service. (Waldheim, second from left, with Italian General Ercole Roncaglia, Col. Hans Herbert Macholz, and SS-GruppenfhrerArtur Phleps at Podgorica airfield, May 1943.). [23], On 11 September 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin sent a telegram to Waldheim, copies of which went to Yasser Arafat and Golda Meir. X27 ; s father, Walter, the state broadcaster ORF reported UN. 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