n Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918)
Heinz Fischer in Reuters India Waldheim became the projection screen for a guilty conscience linked to the Nazi period,President Heinz Fischer told the congregation in St. Stephen's, overlooking the coffin draped in the Austrian flag. "He deserves his lifetime to be...
Simon Wiesenthal in Reuters Kurt Waldheim left this world with a huge question mark about his past and his activities during World War Two,Ephraim Zuroff, Israel director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre told Reuters. "He was in a position to know about Holocaust...