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. [26], Waldheim ran for a second term in the 1976 UN Secretary-General selection. 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.. The World Jewish Congress was particularly active in pushing this, and Secretary [of State George] Shultz had absolutely no sympathy for Waldheim himself. 07 "Join The Howard Stern Club" [1:55, February 9] Tiny Tim interview, his last involvement with the show until New Year's Rotten Eve. Under U.S. law the Justice Department makes the decision. [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. (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. In March 1938, Adolf Hitler ordered his army into Austria and annexed the country. 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. He apparently gained the sympathy of the Austrian electorate and won the presidency with 54% of the vote. They claimed that prominent German politicians who were involved in worse things than Waldheim have gotten into the United States. Waldheim was supported by 11 votes, including the Soviet Union, and led the first two rounds of voting. When I met Kurt Waldheim in Vienna in 1994, the Balkans were doubly at issue, a generation apart. And fellow Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger invited Waldheim to his 1986 wedding to Maria Shriver, a month after the disclosures about Waldheims Nazi past. From his youth, Waldheim was distinguished by his unusual height of 1.92m (6ft 4in). 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 . 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. Waldheims UN secretaryship beginning in 1972 was characterized as efficient and ministerial. report. Waldheim admitted that he had not been candid about his past but disclaimed all knowledge of or participation in wartime atrocities. [41] Stolen Jewish art remained public property a generation after the Waldheim affair. This marked the first time that a head of state had been put on an immigration watchlist. On 19 August 1944, he married Elisabeth Ritschel in Vienna; their first daughter, Lieselotte, was born the following year. In 1986 Waldheim ran once again as the Peoples Party candidate for president of Austria. 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. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith . There was a Finnish diplomat named Jacobson who was Finnish and Jewish, who was another candidate running for Secretary General of the UN. 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 . Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. 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He died of heart failure, the state broadcaster ORF reported. He managed to continue his studies by working as a Latin and Greek tutor and borrowing funds from relatives.[8]. The law was meant to keep out former Nazis, especially people who lied about their past in obtaining a visa and especially anybody who was connected with the concentration camps and other atrocities. Like many ambitious people, he loved publicity. Today is Tuesday, March 10, the 70th day of 2020. 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. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 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. [45] Although Waldheim had stated that he was unaware of any crimes taking place, the committee cited evidence that Waldheim must have known about war crimes. While he was running for President in Austria in 1985, his service as an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht . Europe and others push for a standard lunar time zone, Dr. Simi is a TikTok star. Kurt Waldheim. After the electoral defeat of the Austrian Peoples Party, Waldheim was elected chairman of the Safeguards Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. [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. So decisions were made then in the light of the necessities at the time and were perfectly legitimate, I think. This argument may have merit but it did not change the U.S. position. The Justice lawyer picked up Pan Am 103 in Frankfurt and was killed by the bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland.. Kurt Waldheim, a widely esteemed former secretary general of the United Nations, was running for president of Austria in March 1986 when it came to light that he had participated in Nazi . In March 1936, the Schuschnigg government passed a law mandating a period of military service for prospective civil servants. WALDHEIM AFFAIR. His service from 1942 to 1945 was the subject of international review in 1985 and 1986. 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. [52], Additional allegations of participation in Nazi crimes, with citations to captured Nazi documents and other records, were leveled in a 1993 book by Eli Rosenbaum, the former U.S. federal prosecutor who had directed the World Jewish Congress investigation that led to the New York Times' initial exposure of Waldheim's hidden Nazi-era past in 1986. Sklici in opombe Glej tudi . 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. 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. He went through my fingers. For if history teaches us anything, it is that the Hitlers and the Mengeles could never have accomplished their atrocious deeds by themselves. Cardinal . Political career. The sources, who spoke on . That claim was repeated in two autobiographies and routinely to journalists. 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. Thu 14 Jun 2007 19.08 EDT. 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. Kurt Waldheim: distinguished diplomat who fell from grace. 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. We sent out a delegation headed by the Departments Deputy Legal Adviser to negotiate an arrangement that would include prior notification and so on. I was happy to see him turned him down and he will never get to see the shores of the United States again. They were also convinced that the U.S. was picking on Austria because it was small. president of Austria and secretary-general of the United Nations. But for whatever reason, he and thousands of others eluded prosecution in the chaos of postwar Europe. To deduce that knowledge constitutes some kind of crime is simply not correct, he told an Austrian television interviewer. A man named [Allan] Ryan headed the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in the Justice Department that went after the Nazis. [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. This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 18:08. But sure, its this kind of ex post facto thing that we got into. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . "We lived in daily apprehension.". "[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. 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. Waldheim had unsuccessfully sought election as President of Austria in 1971, but his second attempt on 8 June 1986 proved successful. [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. Many were displaced persons at the end of the war and ended up in Austria. 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. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Visitor's guide to United Nations in the time of Kurt Waldheim 1973. by Kurt Waldheim | Jan 1, 1973. At the U.N., Kurt Waldheim was known as "the man who the world trusts.". Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. More posts from the howardstern community. 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. It was intended to prompt us to look into the causes, course and consequences of the Waldheim affair. We have many differences with him, but that isn't one of them. Then in November 1938, he enrolled in the SA, the paramilitary Nazi organization of storm troopers. VIENNA, Austria - Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German army unit that . Austrian political figure and diplomat. Preview, Elvis 8/15/86 Susan Berkley, Kurt Waldheim Jr. 8/18/86 Philadelphia broadcast debut 8/21/86 Post Office massacre 8/22/86 Stern song debut, Boomerang 8/25/86 Morning Zoo 9/11/86 Siskel and Ebert Still, the Waldheim affair took up a lot of our time. Waldheim did not attend but sent a gift, prompting Schwarzenegger to give what participants described as a very emotional toast in Waldheims honor. 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. By William Walter Kay Global Research, February 22, 2023 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. 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. Both were interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy. Most often they would take the second choice. Get out! and we went out. In the immediate aftermath of the fighting, an Allied war crimes commission recommended that he be tried as a war criminal. So far, the Justice Department was acting completely aboveboard. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. It was reported, for example, that he had received a special decoration in 1942 from the Ustasha, Croatias Nazi puppet regime, for valorous conduct in the brutal repression of guerrillas and civilians in Bosnia. D uring Kurt Waldheim's Austrian presidential campaign in the spring of 1986, that nation's collective consciousness experienced a painful return of the repressed, a psychological agony . The rest of the delegation waited a day to catch a direct flight to Washington. He was 88. 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. On a personal note, when I served in Vienna, the Chancellors aide was a good friend of mine. as zadnje spremembe strani: 14:46, 24. februar 2023. His family was with him when he succumbed to cardiovascular failure. During the later, UN Resolution 3379, which considered Zionism as a form of racism and equated it with South African Apartheid, was approved by impulse of Arab countries, the Soviet bloc, and Non-Aligned Movement countries. In my view he was the kind of person and there are many of his type in Austria who goes along to get along. Consequently, he chose not to run for a second term in 1992. Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. 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 . 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). Herbert John Spiro, interviewed beginning in April 1994, served from 1945-65 as Chief of Counterintelligence at U.S. Headquarters in Vienna. There was testimony that he had roughed up some of the POWs. Shortly afterwards, he ran and was defeated in the 1971 Austrian presidential elections. He won election to the Austrian presidency in June 1986 for a six-year term. Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary-general and Austrian president, has died at 88. May 22, 1943. Other pieces of evidence included logs and intelligence reports, purportedly bearing his signature, describing mass deportations of Greek Jews to death camps. But whatever their units, they were bad guys. The same year, he was made an honorary member of K.H.V. The ex-concentration guard would then show up on the Austrians doorstep. The commission did not say Waldheim personally participated in the bloodshed, and he seized on that to claim that he had essentially been exonerated. But he was an important guy. Theres no doubt about that. Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. 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. [West German Chancellor Helmut] Kohl used to meet with him unofficially when Kohl was on his annual summer vacation in Austria. During his campaign to become President of Austria, the Social Democrat opposition made charges about his activities during the war. then Kurt Waldheim tried to seduce me when I was just 14.' Small . (Waldheim, second from left, with Italian General Ercole Roncaglia, Col. Hans Herbert Macholz, and SS-GruppenfhrerArtur Phleps at Podgorica airfield, May 1943.). Then we supported him to be Secretary General of the United Nations. [25] Amidst international protest, "the UN spokesman said [in his daily press conference] it was not the secretary-general's practice to comment on telegrams sent him by heads of government. 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. [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. 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. Kurt Josef Waldheim (German pronunciation: [kt valdham]; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. During his campaign to become president in 1986, it became public that . International uproar surged, especially as the World Jewish Congress and American and European media continued to air new revelations about Waldheims past. Earlier this week, it was examined by the Israeli and Austrian ambassadors. He continued to maintain a few important friends, who in turn suffered for their association. [14], Waldheim's name appears on the Wehrmacht's "honour list" of those responsible for the militarily successful operation. [23] While in Tehran, it was announced that an attempt on Waldheim's life had been foiled. 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. In 1994, Pope John Paul II awarded Waldheim a knighthood in the Order of Pius IX and his wife a papal honor. 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. 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. And he portrayed himself as the victim of a smear campaign orchestrated by outside, foreign forces. [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. All of a sudden, we had this case that involved the President of Austria. This became the "Waldheim Affair" which was important in exposing the criminal role . Negligee and Underpants Party: Directed by Jim Fitzgerald, Wendy Scatloni, Brad Mays. In 1985, he launched his bid for the presidency of Austria, a largely ceremonial post that he nevertheless wanted to take from the hands of the Socialist Party, which had held it 16 years. Updates? June 15, 2007. Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) served as secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Those who relate this film only to current problems . BODDE: Kurt Waldheim was President of Austria. I didnt deal with him because he was much above my level. He died of heart failure, the state broadcaster ORF reported.Although it was never proved that Waldheim himself committed atrocities . Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. 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 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. Well, there was never really any good evidence that tied Waldheim directly to atrocities. He was the world's top diplo. Theres an office in the Justice Department, the Office of Special Investigations, which is dedicated to uncovering former Nazis. 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. Ron Lauder, a political appointee, was Ambassador to Austria at the time. An account published in the Los Angeles Times in 1971 described him this way: Waldheim is very much the diplomats diplomat: conservative in dress, elegant in manner and discreet to a fault.. He came in and appealed. (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. Waldheims survivors include his wife, Elisabeth, and three children. 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. Normally thats what the Austrian President does. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith surnamed Vaclavik. And, it was later discovered, he had served with the Abwehr, which was the German military counter-intelligence, and was probably co-responsible for war crimes. Waldheims father, Walther, was briefly jailed because of his anti-Nazi views and stripped of his job. - Title based on information from slide mount and other caption information provided by the photographer. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia as an . Despite his humble beginnings, Waldheim was able to pursue university studies in law and diplomacy in Vienna. Jun 14, 2007 at 3:03 pm. 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. [4] Waldheim and his two younger siblings, a brother, Walther, and a sister, Gerlinde, enjoyed a comfortable middle-class upbringing. No, at least not during the Cold War when important strategic interests were at stake. [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. 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.. [4] 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. 450. Kurt's father, Walter, migrated to Austria where Christian-Social Party (CSP) activism landed him the plum-gig of school inspector. 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. SPIRO: My job was to track down members of the former German intelligence services in Austria. Also present was Luis Durnwalder, governor of the Italian province of South Tyrol. His intelligence regarding work in Greece during World War II raised more questions than answers. However, China was still opposed to Waldheim and approached several Third World countries seeking challengers. He did lie about his military service. Kurt Josef Waldheim (Sankt Andr-Wrdern, 21 dcembre 1918 - Vienne, 14 juin 2007) . - Date based on span of years Waldheim served as Secretary General of the United Nations. Share. Fischer also praised Waldheim for his efforts to solve international crises and for his contributions to world peace. Did he know that some bad things were going on? He had been stationed in Yugoslavia when atrocities were committed. With Howard Stern, Dominic Barbara, Richard Belzer, Downtown Julie Brown. Posted by 5 days ago. "[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. We were treating Austria shabbily and finally the State Department forced the Justice Department to negotiate a new arrangement. 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. [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. [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. "Our family was under constant surveillance," Waldheim wrote. Still, he denied any role in war crimes. 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. [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. 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. Allegations concerning Dr. Kurt Waldheim hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, [Leather Bound] Born Dec. 21, 1918, in Sankt Andr-Wrdern, Lower Austria. Kurt Waldheim Jr. It was odd. Kurt Josef Waldheim was born on December 21 1918 at Tulln, near Vienna. . So when the negotiations were completed he flew to London to pick up a plane that would get him home sooner. I was listening to an Audiobook recently, specifically the book KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann. 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