OSI would track down a former concentration camp guard who lied on his immigration forms. 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. Herbert John Spiro, interviewed beginning in April 1994, served from 1945-65 as Chief of Counterintelligence at U.S. Headquarters in Vienna. They told us that they didnt know about these peoples past and why should they be saddled with former Romanians or Yugoslavs. After a period as director general for political affairs in the Austrian Foreign Ministry, he became his countrys ambassador to the UN (196468, 197071). Like many ambitious people, he loved publicity. Would we have done this to the German Chancellor? BODDE: Kurt Waldheim was President of Austria. He went through my fingers. Waldheim ran for an unprecedented third full term as Secretary-General in the 1981 selection. For two years beginning in 1968, he was the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Austrian People's Party, before going back as Permanent Representative to the U.N. in 1970. [59] He was a staff officer. 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. 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. But for many critics, Waldheim embodied their view of the U.N. as a toothless appeaser or a weak tool of the dominant superpowers. Waldheims initial denial of his Nazi past and obfuscation mirrored that of a nation. Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, issued a message 'voicing sadness'. 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. WALDHEIM AFFAIR. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. He won election to the Austrian presidency in June 1986 for a six-year term. But the disclosures sparked a nationalist backlash in Austria that aided Waldheim's election as president. There was no comment or statement from the governors office Thursday on the death of Waldheim.). 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. Many of them were Yugoslavs or Romanians and all of them were old. 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Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. 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. Pope John Paul II welcomed Waldheim to the Vatican in the Austrian leaders first official trip abroad after his election as president, a recognition that provoked anger across the Jewish world and in Washington. 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. 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 . 21 June 2007. The Security Council had recommended the appointment on 21 December 1971 and . 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. president of Austria and secretary-general of the United Nations. Waldheim admitted that he had not been candid about his past but disclaimed all knowledge of or participation in wartime atrocities. [20] According to Finnish diplomat Risto Hyvrinen, Waldheim's former Nazi connections were already known to the Finnish officials who supported Max Jakobson for Secretary-General in the election. save. A close political ally of Waldheim dismissed the commission as being full of Waldheims enemies -- Jews and Socialists -- and thus not credible. [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". In 1971 he ran for president on the Peoples Party ticket but lost. Secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-81). Along with his family, Waldheim opposed the German annexation of Austria in 1938, and while actively campaigning against it in Vienna was attacked and injured by Austrian Nazis. The official Waldheim biography, which he had studiously maintained for decades, was a lie. Despite that, I tried to the best of my ability to remain loyal to my values and to serve my homeland.. 8/13/86 Rafael Pineda, S.Berkley, Kurt Waldheim, Lesb. This argument may have merit but it did not change the U.S. position. [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. 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. [40] Nevertheless, he admitted that he had known about German reprisals: "Yes, I knew. Many were displaced persons at the end of the war and ended up in Austria. (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. Himself / Kurt Waldheim Jr. Petey Greene's Washington: 1981: TV Series: Himself: Archive Footage . William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. 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. Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. Did he know that some bad things were going on? 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. 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. 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. Kurt Josef Waldheim was born on December 21 1918 at Tulln, near Vienna. As is now known, he fought on the Eastern Front until he was wounded in December 1941. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Or, as his critics at the time put it, pliant and passive. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. It took hundreds of thousands of ordinary men - well-meaning but ambitious men like Kurt Waldheim - to make the Third Reich possible. Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. In March 1938, Adolf Hitler ordered his army into Austria and annexed the country. The Austrians would be embarrassed, because it would look like the U.S. was sending another Nazi back to Austria. [21], As secretary-general from 1972 onward, Waldheim opened and addressed a number of major international conferences convened under United Nations auspices. Butthe Pope has his own foreign policy. report. - Date based on span of years Waldheim served as Secretary General of the United Nations. His aides at the United Nations even accused the Israeli mission of spreading rumors that he supported the Nazis. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. [29][30], Waldheim was the first Secretary-General to visit North Korea, in 1979. We wanted the information and we did not want it to fall into the hands of the Soviets. But for most of the world, Waldheim was ruined and discredited. He is a figurehead and spends a great amount of time visiting other countries. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. 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. We sent out a delegation headed by the Departments Deputy Legal Adviser to negotiate an arrangement that would include prior notification and so on. 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. We have many differences with him, but that isn't one of them. He was 88. Notes. After finishing his studies in law at the University of Vienna Waldheim joined the Austrian diplomatic service in 1945. Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary-general and Austrian president, has died at 88. On 27 April 1987, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim would not be allowed to enter the United States after it was conclusively determined that he participated in Nazi war crimes during World War II. 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. 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. [47] The committee also noted that "he only had very minor possibilities to act against the injustices happening". Song, Little Ricky 8/14/86 Susan Berkley, Cindi Lauper Record, Phila. Omissions? 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. Waldheim weathered protests abroad, calls for his resignation at home and even the cold shoulder of some members of his own political party. The Austrians, of course, were beside themselves. [22] His diplomatic efforts particularly in the Middle East were overshadowed by the diplomacy of then U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. At the U.N., Kurt Waldheim was known as "the man who the world trusts.". Japan and Syria were the only two countries that laid wreaths on his grave. The ex-concentration guard would then show up on the Austrians doorstep. It was intended to prompt us to look into the causes, course and consequences of the Waldheim affair. After six weeks of deadlock, Waldheim and Salim both withdrew from the race. 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. I had either to continue to serve or be executed. 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. They would pull in some 70- or 80-year-old man and tell him he had two choices: He could go on trial and face the likely possibility of spending the rest of his life in jail, or he could renounce his U.S. citizenship and be deported to Austria. 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 electoral defeat of the Austrian Peoples Party, Waldheim was elected chairman of the Safeguards Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency. That was true. He apparently gained the sympathy of the Austrian electorate and won the presidency with 54% of the vote. His intelligence regarding work in Greece during World War II raised more questions than answers. Eventually, though, he was forced to acknowledge that he continued in the military as an intelligence officer, stationed from 1942 to 1945 in Greece and Yugoslavia -- sites of some of the most horrendous massacres of the war. [14], Waldheim's name appears on the Wehrmacht's "honour list" of those responsible for the militarily successful operation. In 1986 Waldheim ran once again as the Peoples Party candidate for president of Austria. Despite resistance from new member China, Waldheim was elected secretary-general of the U.N. and assumed office in January 1972. [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. Waldheim resoundingly defeated Echeverra in the first round of voting. Kurt Josef Waldheim, fdd 21 december 1918 i Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Niedersterreich, dd 14 juni 2007 i Wien, var en sterrikisk politiker och diplomat. You might remember that we took the high moral road right after the war and declared that anyone who had belonged to the Nazi Party could only work at menial jobs. Near the end of his tenure as secretary-general, Waldheim and British popular musician Paul McCartney organized a series of concerts for the People of Kampuchea to help Cambodia recover from the damage done by Pol Pot.[32]. [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. 1. A fireball can never be helpful in this situation. With Kurt Waldheim, Ruth Beckermann, Yasser Arafat, Hubertus Czernin. Kurt Waldheim - Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia as an . 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. The same year, he was made an honorary member of K.H.V. 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. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. 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. But whatever their units, they were bad guys. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith surnamed Vaclavik. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. Following the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, his father changed the family surname to . 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 rest of the delegation waited a day to catch a direct flight to Washington. The veto duel between China and the United States lasted a record 16 rounds. 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. 3. The controversy surrounding my person in and outside Austria often hurt me, he said. Jun 14, 2007 at 3:03 pm. Yet no government pressed to bring Waldheim to account or even to reveal his unsavory history. Shultz said, Get out! He retired in 1992, never again to assume a public role outside Austria. 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. So far, the Justice Department was acting completely aboveboard. then Kurt Waldheim tried to seduce me when I was just 14.' Small . International uproar surged, especially as the World Jewish Congress and American and European media continued to air new revelations about Waldheims past. Klestils friendships didnt do him much good. Probably. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992. Donald Trump Jr. claims US train network is being sabotaged as revenge for Nord Stream 2 after derailments in Ohio and Michigan . That is why they preferred him. 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. There was testimony that he had roughed up some of the POWs. Once I went to see him when I was in Austria for these COCOM [Coordinating Commission on Multilateral Export Controls] negotiations. [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. 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. 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. "[40] He said that he had never fired a shot or even seen a partisan. That claim was repeated in two autobiographies and routinely to journalists. Pamphlet. 1989 Vol. Wikipedia je trna znamka neprofitne organizacije Wikimedia Foundation Inc.; Pravilnik o zasebnosti Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army . 450. 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. This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 18:08. More posts from the howardstern community. He came back and he and I went to see the Secretary. So decisions were made then in the light of the necessities at the time and were perfectly legitimate, I think. Because of his known anti-Nazi sympathies, Walter Waldheim was twice arrested by the Gestapo and lost his job. He was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Kurt Josef Waldheim (German pronunciation: [kt valdham]; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Four years after returning from New York to Austria, Waldheim was hot on the campaign trail, all but certain of an . June 15, 2007. He came in and appealed. However, first and foremost, it is a film about the process of the affair. Other pieces of evidence included logs and intelligence reports, purportedly bearing his signature, describing mass deportations of Greek Jews to death camps. Under U.S. law the Justice Department makes the decision. Waldheim won an accidental victory in the third round of voting when those three permanent members failed to coordinate their vetoes and all abstained. [West German Chancellor Helmut] Kohl used to meet with him unofficially when Kohl was on his annual summer vacation in Austria. May 22, 1943. The sad thing was that one of the OSI lawyers on the team was anxious to get home to his family. Kurt Waldheim. In March 1936, the Schuschnigg government passed a law mandating a period of military service for prospective civil servants. They thought he was treated badly by the U.S. As a result of the ban Waldheim had a tainted presidency. Kurt Waldheim, who has died aged 88 of heart failure, served two terms as secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-82) before it was revealed that he had lied about . Read more stories about World War II. 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. 100 comments. He died of heart failure, the state broadcaster ORF reported.Although it was never proved that Waldheim himself committed atrocities . 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. China was determined to unseat him this time and lined up a strong candidate in Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania. They would have the person renounce his or her U.S. citizenship. Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. During his campaign for the presidency in 1985, what became known internationally as the "Waldheim affair" began. 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. Kurt Waldheim; Sankt Andre-Verdern, blizu Bea, Austrija, 21. decembar 1918 Be 14. jun 2007) je bio austrijski politiar i diplomata.Njegov izbor za predsednika Austrije 1986. godine bio je zasenjen otkriima da je pripadao jedinici Hitlerovog Vermahta koja je u tadanjoj Jugoslaviji poinila ratne zloine nad civilima tokom Drugog svetskog rata. The World Jewish Congress was particularly active in pushing this, and Secretary [of State George] Shultz had absolutely no sympathy for Waldheim himself. [56] He died on 14 June 2007, at the age of 88 from heart failure. He continued to maintain a few important friends, who in turn suffered for their association. 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 . They were sure that this decision had more to with American domestic politics than it did with Waldheim. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and married a daughter of the mayor. "Our family was under constant surveillance," Waldheim wrote. I dont think any other major country received him. Podgorica, Yugoslavia. Kurt Waldheim. And he portrayed himself as the victim of a smear campaign orchestrated by outside, foreign forces. It was a complicated situation because some years earlier the United States had supported . Entire villages were wiped out by Lohrs men. During 196870 he served as Austrian foreign minister. Countries refused to deal with him, and he was disinvited from numerous ceremonial functions. "Waldheim was clearly not a psychopath like Dr. Josef Mengele nor a hate-filled racist like Adolf Hitler," Herzstein wrote. Active in the Christian Social Party, he was well regarded as a devoutly Catholic family man. But he was an important guy. If we had done a little more digging, both 1946 and 1972 or whenever it was, we might have found out about him. Daniel Radcliffe as Howard Stern in photos from the set of "Private Parts" remake. William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. I was horrified. 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. Born Dec. 21, 1918, in Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Lower Austria. 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. In December, he was wounded but returned to service in 1942. 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. Lauder was very close to the Jewish organizations in the U.S. and Austria but he was concerned about the damage a ban on Waldheim would do to U.S.-Austrian relations. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. He did lie about his military service. But for whatever reason, he and thousands of others eluded prosecution in the chaos of postwar Europe. Foreign Affairs magazine, SeptemberOctober, 1995 (Volume 74 No. Waldheim je bil generalni sekretar OZN (1972-1981) in predsednik Avstrije (1986-1992). Austrian state media said Waldheim, who was hospitalized last month with a fever-causing infection, died of heart failure in Vienna. Get out! and we went out. 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