Kurt waldheim biography
Waldheim
Elisabeth waldheim.
Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austriandiplomat and conservative politician. He was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992.
Political career
[change | change source]Waldheim published an autobiography. During his campaign to become president in 1986, it became public that some statements in that biography were not true. These were about his past.
Kurt waldheim biography
Waldheim was an officer for Germany in the Second World War. He became an oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht. Waldheim participated in Operation Kozara in 1942.[1] According to one post-war investigator, prisoners were often shot within only a few hundred meters of Waldheim's office[2] and 35 kilometres (22 mi) away at the Jasenovac concentration camp.
Waldheim later said, "he did not know about the murder of civilians there".[2]
A commission of several historians looked at the issue. They decid