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...eleven months since he was elected Austria's President, Kurt Waldheim has become known as the "prisoner of the Vienna Hofburg." Not that the former United Nations Secretary-General has been literally confined to the sumptuous gold-and-white quarters that serve as his office. But in the wake of revelations that for decades he concealed much of his record as an officer in the German army during World War II, Waldheim has not formally received even one foreign head of state or paid a single official visit abroad, duties that are the stock-in-trade of his largely ceremonial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria Removing the Welcome Mat | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

While there is no definitive proof that the Austrian President committed war crimes, a Justice Department spokesman said the "evidence collected establishes a prima facie case that Kurt Waldheim assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of persons because of race, religion, national origin or political opinion." For years Waldheim had left the impression that he had been wounded on the Soviet front in 1941 and spent most of the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria Removing the Welcome Mat | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Accusations about these dark chapters in Waldheim's past, based largely on material collected by the World Jewish Congress, began surfacing in 1985. During last year's presidential race in Austria, which Waldheim won with 54% of the vote, the U.S. came under intense pressure from Jewish groups to place Waldheim's name on its "watch list" of some 40,000 suspected war criminals, convicts, deportees and others who are unwelcome in the U.S. To avoid interfering with the Austrian elections, Washington chose to conduct its own meticulous investigation, including the examination by a Justice Department team of previously unavailable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria Removing the Welcome Mat | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...speech, Waldheim made no direct reference to accusations that he was linked to World War II atrocities in Greece and Yugoslavia. He did not mention the Nazi Holocaust or Austria's role in the war. Germany annexed Austria in 1938, and some Austrians served in the German army during World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waldheim Defends War Record | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

...Once again, as in the last 12 months, there is talk of supposedly new papers," Waldheim said. "Let me emphasize that the can be no proofs of guilty conduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waldheim Defends War Record | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

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