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...summer of 1942, following some of the bitterest fighting of World War II, German soldiers supported by troops of the Nazi puppet state of Croatia crushed a band of resistance fighters on Mount Kozara in western Yugoslavia. In the aftermath of the battle, according to controversial -- and still unauthenticated -- new evidence, an officer belonging to Ustasi, the local fascist forces, sent a telegram calling for the removal of civilians to nearby concentration camps. Named in the telegram as the source of the order: Lieut. Kurt Waldheim, then a supply officer in the German army and now the beleaguered President...
...remaining war years finishing his studies. He later admitted he was a first lieutenant on the staff of German Group E in the Balkans from 1942 to 1945. But he repeatedly denied he was aware of atrocities committed during the brutal German roundup of partisans in the Kozara region of Yugoslavia in the summer of 1942. More than 60,000 people were sent to concentration camps during the campaign, and thousands died in the process. Investigators also believe that Waldheim participated in the deportation of Greek Jews to Nazi death camps in 1944 and helped turn over Allied prisoners...
Kurt Waldheim's past just will not go away. The Washington Post reported that % the Austrian President had admitted participating as a supply officer in the 1942 German army operation in the Kozara area of Yugoslavia that left thousands of partisans dead. The Post quoted Gerold Christian, a Waldheim spokesman, as saying that an earlier statement in which the Austrian leader denied he was in the province "was incorrect." In a separate article, the newspaper reported that in 1947 and 1948 Yugoslav and Soviet operatives had tried to blackmail Waldheim into becoming a Communist agent by threatening to accuse...
...stories produced a new flurry of charges and countercharges over Waldheim's wartime record. In Austria, Christian sought to clarify the Kozara episode, emphasizing that the former United Nations Secretary-General never actually fought the Yugoslav partisans and noting that this was not the first time he had admitted being in the area. He also denied that the Soviets had conspired to recruit Waldheim...