"His very ordinariness, in fact, may be the most important thing about him. Read more stories about World War II. His candidacy became controversial, however, with the dissemination of wartime and postwar documents that pointed to his having been an interpreter and intelligence officer for a German army unit that engaged in brutal reprisals against Yugoslav Partisans and civilians and deported most of the Jewish population of Salonika (Thessalonki), Greece, to Nazi death camps in 1943. He was 88. In December, he was wounded but returned to service in 1942. It took hundreds of thousands of ordinary men - well-meaning but ambitious men like Kurt Waldheim - to make the Third Reich possible. But the disclosures sparked a nationalist backlash in Austria that aided Waldheim's election as president. 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.". So far, the Justice Department was acting completely aboveboard. 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). Sternalso the former host of popular radio skit "Guess Who's the Jew" with perennial champ "Kurt Waldheim Jr.," played by longtime Stern show member Fred Norristook particular . He retired in 1992, never again to assume a public role outside Austria. "[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". He continued to maintain a few important friends, who in turn suffered for their association. The United States became the third country granted access to the file. In 1994, Pope John Paul II awarded Waldheim a knighthood in the Order of Pius IX and his wife a papal honor. Podgorica, Yugoslavia. Himself / Kurt Waldheim Jr. Petey Greene's Washington: 1981: TV Series: Himself: Archive Footage . 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). Still, the Waldheim affair took up a lot of our time. Normally thats what the Austrian President does. 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. 21 June 2007. This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 18:08. The Germans were unhappy with our decision. This became the "Waldheim Affair" which was important in exposing the criminal role . A fireball can never be helpful in this situation. [29][30], Waldheim was the first Secretary-General to visit North Korea, in 1979. 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 . 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. 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. That position earned Wiesenthal the enmity of some Jewish groups. Shortly before his birth the Habsburg monarchy had collapsed, and his father, whose Czech family had been called Watzlawick . [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. (Waldheim, second from left, with Italian General Ercole Roncaglia, Col. Hans Herbert Macholz, and SS-GruppenfhrerArtur Phleps at Podgorica airfield, May 1943.). Chinas opposition aside, Waldheim had appeal for rival superpowers the United States and the Soviet Union, which viewed him as nonideological and noncontroversial. 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. The sources, who spoke on . The commission did not say Waldheim personally participated in the bloodshed, and he seized on that to claim that he had essentially been exonerated. Title Year Status Character; Howard Stern on Demand: 2006-2007: TV Series: Himself: 60 Minutes: 2006: TV Series documentary: Himself - Writer (segment "Howard Stern") Known for movies. Kurt Josef Waldheim (German: [kt valtham] (listen); 21 December 1918 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. This marked the first time that a head of state had been put on an immigration watchlist. If we had done a little more digging, both 1946 and 1972 or whenever it was, we might have found out about him. 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. Kurt Waldheim a ocup les fonctions de Secrtaire gnral de l'Organisation des Nations Unies de 1972 1981. In the immediate aftermath of the fighting, an Allied war crimes commission recommended that he be tried as a war criminal. 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. In my view he was the kind of person and there are many of his type in Austria who goes along to get along. [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. 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. [27] Outgoing Mexican President Luis Echeverra finally entered the race in October 1976, making Waldheim the only Secretary-General to face a contested re-selection campaign. Visitor's guide to United Nations in the time of Kurt Waldheim 1973. by Kurt Waldheim | Jan 1, 1973. International uproar surged, especially as the World Jewish Congress and American and European media continued to air new revelations about Waldheims past. Song, Little Ricky 8/14/86 Susan Berkley, Cindi Lauper Record, Phila. Han var Frenta nationernas generalsekreterare 1972-1981 och sterrikes frbundspresident 1986-1992. The Austrian government, hoping to put the matter to rest, appointed a special historical commission to review the evidence against Waldheim. The book featured many different people from different countries, the narrator made the odd choice to imitate various accents of the people quoted. (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. "[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. He was soon conscripted into the German army, however, and served on the Russian front until 1941, when he was wounded. However, he was vetoed by China in the second round. "[40] He said that he had never fired a shot or even seen a partisan. 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. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kurt-Waldheim, British Broadcasting Corporation - Kurt Waldheim, United Nations - Biography of Kurt Waldheim, Kurt Waldheim - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). And he portrayed himself as the victim of a smear campaign orchestrated by outside, foreign forces. 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. In early 1941, Waldheim was drafted into the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, specifically to the Heer (Army), and posted to the Eastern Front where he served as a squad leader. [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. 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. Those who relate this film only to current problems . Kurt Waldheim, who was president of Austria from 1986 to 1992, systematically lied about his wartime past. Under U.S. law the Justice Department makes the decision. Today is Tuesday, March 10, the 70th day of 2020. I suspect that he was more concerned with the hostility that he would face in Vienna in the wake of a ban. [39], Waldheim called the allegations, which grew in magnitude in the ensuing months, "pure lies and malicious acts". Waldheim also took a special interest in the future of Namibia and South Africa. [16], Waldheim denied that he knew war crimes were taking place in Bosnia at the height of the battles between the Nazis and Tito's partisans in 1943. Kurt Waldheim. He added that the secretary-general condemned any form of racial discrimination and genocide. [34], Waldheim had previously claimed to have received a medical discharge after being wounded in winter 1942. Hnt syytettiin osallisuudesta murhaan sek salaliittoon ja sieppaukseen, joiden . Kurt Waldheim Jr. Waldheims precise involvement in these brutalities would be a matter of debate and investigation for years to come. 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 March 1936, the Schuschnigg government passed a law mandating a period of military service for prospective civil servants. He died of heart failure, the state broadcaster ORF reported. Despite that, I tried to the best of my ability to remain loyal to my values and to serve my homeland.. There was no comment or statement from the governors office Thursday on the death of Waldheim.). *** In 1987 the US Justice Department declared Kurt Waldheim a dangerous agent; forever forbidding his re-entry onto US soil. Well, there was never really any good evidence that tied Waldheim directly to atrocities. Daniel Radcliffe as Howard Stern in photos from the set of "Private Parts" remake. It was a complicated situation because some years earlier the United States had supported . They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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. The controversy surrounding Waldheim was particularly problematic for Austria, forcing a tardy reckoning of the nations complicity in Nazi crimes. 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. By William Walter Kay Global Research, February 22, 2023 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Waldheim had served a painful term as Austrian President, marked from beginning . Butthe Pope has his own foreign policy. That claim was repeated in two autobiographies and routinely to journalists. 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 . Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. But for most of the world, Waldheim was ruined and discredited. 27. helmikuuta - Yhdistyneiden kansakuntien psihteeri Kurt Waldheim nimitti varatuomari Helvi Sipiln YK:n sosiaaliasioiden apulaispsihteeriksi. [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. 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. The Waldheim Waltz: Directed by Ruth Beckermann. I dont think any other major country received him. Cardinal . Anyone can read what you share. They claimed that prominent German politicians who were involved in worse things than Waldheim have gotten into the United States. His family was with him when he succumbed to cardiovascular failure. 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. That we were perfectly honest is another question. Waldheims father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. His service from 1942 to 1945 was the subject of international review in 1985 and 1986. He died of heart failure, the state broadcaster ORF reported. 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. 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. He was 88. 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 . as zadnje spremembe strani: 14:46, 24. februar 2023. It was not until Waldheim left the United Nations and then ran for president of Austria in 1986 that his wartime past became widely known. The Justice lawyer picked up Pan Am 103 in Frankfurt and was killed by the bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland.. VIENNA, Austria - Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German army unit that . [4] Waldheim and his two younger siblings, a brother, Walther, and a sister, Gerlinde, enjoyed a comfortable middle-class upbringing. In 1986, four years after his tenure as the UN Secretary General, Kurt Waldheim made a bid to lead his native Austria. 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. At the U.N., Kurt Waldheim was known as "the man who the world trusts.". [59] 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. 3. It was sad, because he said, Bill, youve turned my biggest success in my life to crap. He said, I got this man elected President, and you turned around and ruined him. I didnt apologize, because I didnt think I had to apologize for what we did. We wanted the information and we did not want it to fall into the hands of the Soviets. Waldheim had unsuccessfully sought election as President of Austria in 1971, but his second attempt on 8 June 1986 proved successful. With Howard Stern, Dominic Barbara, Richard Belzer, Downtown Julie Brown. (Croatia and Bosnia were part of Yugoslavia at the time.). Although it was never proved that Waldheim himself committed atrocities during World War II, he was a lieutenant in army intelligence, attached to brutal German military units that executed thousands of Yugoslav partisans and civilians and deported thousands of Greek Jews to death camps from 1942 to 1944. The 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. then Kurt Waldheim tried to seduce me when I was just 14.' Small . He oversaw effective and sometimes massive relief efforts in Bangladesh, Nicaragua, the Sudan-Sahel area of Africa, and Guatemala, as well as peacekeeping operations in Cyprus, the two Yemens, Angola, Guinea, and, especially, the Middle East. They thought he was treated badly by the U.S. As a result of the ban Waldheim had a tainted presidency. 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. I didnt deal with him because he was much above my level. Before the decision, the Austrians would come to Washington and ask us not to do it. [40] His former immediate superior at the time stated that Waldheim had "remained confined to a desk". Ironically, Thomas Klestil was elected President when Waldheim completed his term of office. In the first round of voting, Waldheim lost to Salim by one vote. - Date based on span of years Waldheim served as Secretary General of the United Nations. 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. By early 1948, the UN War Crimes Commission listed him as a suspected war criminal subject to trial. 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. In those days, before the taint of scandal, Waldheim was often called the dapper diplomat. Accompanied by his vivacious wife, the former Elisabeth Ritschl, he was the epitome of Old World aristocratic style, a gallant gentleman in bespoke suits who kissed womens hands, starred on the cocktail-and-banquet circuit and oozed obsequious charm. 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. [10], Much historical interest has centred on Waldheim's role in Operation Kozara in 1942. 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 . Kurt Josef Waldheim was born on December 21 1918 at Tulln, near Vienna. Knfel, Ulrike and Kraske, Marion (4 April 2008), Wiesenthal, Simon (1999) "The Waldheim Case" in. Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) served as secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and 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. 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. [60] In a two-page letter, published posthumously by the Austrian Press Agency the day after he died, Waldheim admitted making "mistakes" ("but these were certainly not those of a follower let alone an accomplice of a criminal regime") and asked his critics for forgiveness.[61]. Waldheim was a member of the Austrian People's Party (sterreichische Volkspartei, or VP) and served as foreign minister. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Still, he denied any role in war crimes. 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. China was determined to unseat him this time and lined up a strong candidate in Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania. It was odd. Born Dec. 21, 1918, in Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Lower Austria. We have many differences with him, but that isn't one of them. [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). Austria refused to pay compensation to victims of Nazism, and from 1970 onwards refused to investigate Austrian citizens who were senior Nazis. 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. When they emigrated to the United States they hid their Nazi past. Because of his known anti-Nazi sympathies, Walter Waldheim was twice arrested by the Gestapo and lost his job. Nearly a decade later, he brought himself to accept that lying about his past was wrong. That is why they preferred him. 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. And there was some fear that because of Finlands position, he might be subject to Soviet pressures. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. BODDE: Kurt Waldheim was President of Austria. ONCE, in more glorious times, the empire of Austria stretched from Prague and Cracow to Trent, below the Dolomites . He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. I was listening to an Audiobook recently, specifically the book KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann. 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 . [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. 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. So when the negotiations were completed he flew to London to pick up a plane that would get him home sooner. 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. Many of them were Yugoslavs or Romanians and all of them were old. [21], As secretary-general from 1972 onward, Waldheim opened and addressed a number of major international conferences convened under United Nations auspices. [4] Kurt Waldheim, the erudite diplomat who served as U.N. secretary-general and Austrias president but left the world stage a pariah after his Nazi past was exposed, died Thursday. A close political ally of Waldheim dismissed the commission as being full of Waldheims enemies -- Jews and Socialists -- and thus not credible. After the war, Lohr was condemned and executed as a war criminal. Shit is just hard to watch, his jokes were never funny. Fred played Kurt Waldheim, Jr. Great stuff. Waldheim had risen to the pinnacle of international diplomacy and was running for president of Austria when his past caught up with him. It was intended to prompt us to look into the causes, course and consequences of the Waldheim affair. The ex-concentration guard would then show up on the Austrians doorstep. The United States and United Kingdom initially supported him in the second round of voting. 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