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United NationsFormer Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
1972 - 1981
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2007
Disgraced UN Chief and Nazi War Criminal Waldheim, Dies Aged 88 (June 15, 2007)
In this article, journalist Robert Fisk exposes Kurt Waldheim’s criminal past. Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and President of Austria, served as an intelligence officer for the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was located at Banja Luka in Yugoslavia where mass murders of Jews, Serbs and Communists took place. Waldheim always claimed that he didn’t know about the killings and even wrote a book attempting to prove his innocence. (Belfast Telegraph)Kurt Waldheim, Former UN Chief, Is Dead at 88 (June 15, 2007)
As UN Secretary General from 1972 to 1982, Kurt Waldheim concealed the incriminating parts of his military career. But a few years later when Waldheim was running for president of Austria, documents emerged which proved both his involvement with the Nazi movement and his role as a lieutenant in an army unit responsible for the execution of thousands of Yugoslavs. Waldheim, who passed away in 2007, always denied his guilt, arguing that he was “an ordinary citizen who had been caught up in a maelstrom.” (New York Times)
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