portal Kurt Josef Waldheim (German: [ˈkʰʊɐ̯t ˈvalthaɪm] ; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the...
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Edgar Bronfman Sr. (section Kurt Waldheim)
those seeking to help free Soviet Jewry; to expose Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past; and to help victims of the Holocaust and their heirs to...
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Simon Wiesenthal (section Kurt Waldheim)
suit ending in 1989. In 1986, Wiesenthal was involved in the case of Kurt Waldheim, whose service in the Wehrmacht and probable knowledge of the Holocaust...
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Eli Rosenbaum (section Kurt Waldheim controversy)
exposure of the Nazi past of former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, arguably the most "sensational" uncovering of a Nazi in postwar history...
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A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1981. Kurt Waldheim ran for an unprecedented third full term as Secretary-General, losing to...
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the 1981 selection, cast a record 16 vetoes against a third term for Kurt Waldheim. No secretary-general since 1981 has attempted to secure a third term...
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Elisabeth "Sissy" Waldheim (née Ritschel; 13 April 1922 – 28 February 2017) was an Austrian political figure and the wife of Kurt Waldheim, the UN Secretary-General...
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be selected Secretary-General: Carlos Ortiz de Rozas of Argentina, Kurt Waldheim of Austria, and Max Jakobson of Finland. However, all of the frontrunners...
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Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg (German: [ˈʃʊʃnɪk]; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the...
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Austria victim theory (section Waldheim affair)
In 1986, the election of a former Wehrmacht intelligence officer, Kurt Waldheim, as federal president put Austria on the verge of international isolation...
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were held in Austria on 4 May 1986 with a second round on 8 June 1986. Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, endorsed by the Austrian...
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conservative Austrian People's Party to run for president, he succeeded Kurt Waldheim on 8 July 1992. However, in the course of his two terms of office, Klestil's...
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Fred Sinowatz (section Waldheim Affair)
three-years term in office, Sinowatz resigned as Chancellor after Kurt Waldheim's victory in the 1986 presidential election. Born in Neufeld an der Leitha...
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following year and becoming the first European to hold this office since Kurt Waldheim in 1981. Guterres was born in parish of Santos-o-Velho, in the municipality...
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veto against President of Austria Kurt Waldheim In 1981, China supported an African candidate and vetoed Waldheim 16 times until he finally suspended...
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November 1961 31 December 1971 First non-European to hold office 4 Kurt Waldheim Austria 1 January 1972 31 December 1981 5 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Peru...
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coalition" (one of these two and a smaller party) ruled the country. Kurt Waldheim, the former secretary-general of the United Nations, was elected President...
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American film director Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007), Austrian politician, UN Secretary General 1972–1981, convicted Nazi war criminal Kurt Warburton, English mixed...
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Ronald Reagan, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Louis...
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languages, including a spoken greeting in English by U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and a greeting by Sagan's six-year-old son, Nick; other human sounds...
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Thant's term. After every candidate was vetoed in the second round, Kurt Waldheim accidentally won in the third round when the United States, United Kingdom...
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of South Korean nationals in key posts. Previous UN chiefs such as Kurt Waldheim (Austria), Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Peru), and Boutros Boutros-Ghali...
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earlier. In December 1981, Pérez de Cuéllar was selected to succeed Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General of the United Nations; he was unanimously re-elected...
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of Kurt Waldheim's first term. After a single symbolic veto from China to show its support for a Secretary-General from the Third World, Waldheim easily...
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grandson of the above Elisabeth Waldheim (1922–2017), Kurt Waldheim's widow and a former first lady of Austria Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007), President of Austria...
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Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The first audio section contains a spoken greeting in English from then-Secretary-General of the United Nations Kurt Waldheim. The...
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past of former United Nations Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. He wrote initially for the news weekly Wochenpresse. In 1984 he was...
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former Nazis regained prestige and held high posts in the new republics. Kurt Waldheim, an Austrian Nazi, even held the highest post as Secretary-General of...
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international level was the election of Kurt Waldheim to the Presidency of Austria in 1986. It came to light that Waldheim had been a member of the National...
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November 1961 – 31 December 1971 View from the UN ISBN 0-385-11541-5 4 Kurt Waldheim 1 January 1972 – 31 December 1981 In the Eye of the Storm ISBN 0-297-78678-4...
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