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waldheim

wawldhahym

  • 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)
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  • 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...

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