Word: waldheim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DOCUMENT HAS PROVEN, and no Austrian official has said, that Kurt Waldheim is an indictable /anti-Semitic war criminal...
...temptation to avoid memories of the Nazi horrors is even more disturbing than the memories themselves. Still the United Nations is witholding over 40,000 documents collected about war crimes from 1943 to 1948. They should be given to Israel. Not just Kurt Waldheim, but all who lived through that past must face up to it. As the President of West Germany said at the 40th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis: "We Germans must look truth straight in the eye--without embellishment and without distortion... There can be no reconciliation without remembrance...
Though further clarification is certainly needed from Waldheim, there are no grounds as yet to justify this ignominious label, and the majority should not judge him without more facts. They should also not psychoanalyze the Austrian people as they determine for themselves whom they will choose to be their president...
...Waldheim should not be put on trial and, thereby, be artificially removed from the run-off election, but should be allowed to continue, pending resolution, and, if necessary, criminal indictments, of his possibly innocent, though stained, past...
...forget what the Nazis have done in the past, but let us proceed toward the future, without unsubstantiated bias against Waldheim, leaving the past to affect the present whenever applicable, but only then...