There was testimony that he had roughed up some of the POWs. But for many critics, Waldheim embodied their view of the U.N. as a toothless appeaser or a weak tool of the dominant superpowers. During his tenure, he won praise for his handling of negotiations to establish a U.N. peacekeeping mission after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, and during an unsuccessful attempt to mediate the U.S. hostage crisis in Tehran in 1980, he braved an angry mob of Iranians waving wooden legs and arm stumps (supposed victims of torture under the rule of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi). Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. (Croatia and Bosnia were part of Yugoslavia at the time.). "[18], In 1945, Waldheim surrendered to British forces in Carinthia, at which point he said he had fled his command post within Army Group E, where he was serving with General Alexander Lhr.[19]. The German occupation in the Balkans was particularly brutal. Kurt Waldheim's rebellious, ne'er do well (((son))) It was reported, for example, that he had received a special decoration in 1942 from the Ustasha, Croatias Nazi puppet regime, for valorous conduct in the brutal repression of guerrillas and civilians in Bosnia. *** In 1987 the US Justice Department declared Kurt Waldheim a dangerous agent; forever forbidding his re-entry onto US soil. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Then, in March 1986, during the campaign, Waldheim was hit with damning disclosures. Kurt Waldheim: distinguished diplomat who fell from grace. More posts from the howardstern community. Then it is easy to make references to the present. [27] Outgoing Mexican President Luis Echeverra finally entered the race in October 1976, making Waldheim the only Secretary-General to face a contested re-selection campaign. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia as an . Preview, Elvis 8/15/86 Susan Berkley, Kurt Waldheim Jr. 8/18/86 Philadelphia broadcast debut 8/21/86 Post Office massacre 8/22/86 Stern song debut, Boomerang 8/25/86 Morning Zoo 9/11/86 Siskel and Ebert No reviews. Their report found no evidence of any personal involvement in those crimes. As a member of the German army, I did what was necessary to survive the day, the system, the war -- no more, no less, he wrote in the 1996 book, The Answer.. They told us that they didnt know about these peoples past and why should they be saddled with former Romanians or Yugoslavs. As a gymnasium student in Klosterneuburg, he excelled at languages and was a competent violinist in the school orchestra, also enjoying swimming, boating and tennis. In 1971 he ran for president on the Peoples Party ticket but lost. The fact that Waldheim played a significant role in military units that unquestionably committed war crimes makes him at the very least morally complicit in those crimes.". In the first round of voting, Waldheim lost to Salim by one vote. Many years later when I was a senior member of the Policy Planning Staff, we were asked whether the U.S. should support Waldheim for a second term as Secretary General of the United Nations. China was determined to unseat him this time and lined up a strong candidate in Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania. In 1956 he was made Ambassador to Canada, returning to the Ministry in 1960, after which he became the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations in 1964. 1989 Vol. International uproar surged, especially as the World Jewish Congress and American and European media continued to air new revelations about Waldheims past. He won a second term in 1976 and might well have gone on to a third had China not insisted on a candidate from the Third World, throwing its backing to Waldheims ultimate successor, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru. [48], On 27 April 1987, the United States Departments of Justice and of State announced that evidence amassed in an investigation conducted by the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) had established a prima facie case that Waldheim participated in Nazi-sponsored persecution during World War II and therefore that his entry into the United States was prohibited by federal statute. Han var Frenta nationernas generalsekreterare 1972-1981 och sterrikes frbundspresident 1986-1992. That was the kind of fellow I was looking for. I had either to continue to serve or be executed. For if history teaches us anything, it is that the Hitlers and the Mengeles could never have accomplished their atrocious deeds by themselves. Kurt Waldheim a ocup les fonctions de Secrtaire gnral de l'Organisation des Nations Unies de 1972 1981. Kurt Waldheim, who has died aged 88 of heart failure, served two terms as secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-82) before it was revealed that he had lied about . The book featured many different people from different countries, the narrator made the odd choice to imitate various accents of the people quoted. William Bodde Jr, interviewed in October 1998, reflects on his time as a staff aide in Vienna during this controversy. Waldheims father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. When I met Kurt Waldheim in Vienna in 1994, the Balkans were doubly at issue, a generation apart. The United States became the third country granted access to the file. He was a staff officer. He is a figurehead and spends a great amount of time visiting other countries. After the electoral defeat of the Austrian Peoples Party, Waldheim was elected chairman of the Safeguards Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Kurt Waldheim was born on Dec. 21, 1918, in St. Andr-Wrdern, a village near Vienna. [4] Waldheim and his two younger siblings, a brother, Walther, and a sister, Gerlinde, enjoyed a comfortable middle-class upbringing. The official . I didnt deal with him because he was much above my level. 4 Min Read. Despite his humble beginnings, Waldheim was able to pursue university studies in law and diplomacy in Vienna. Once I went to see him when I was in Austria for these COCOM [Coordinating Commission on Multilateral Export Controls] negotiations. Waldheim during a press conference at the, Waldheim's voice recording on the Voyager Golden Record, Report of the International Historical Commission of 8 February 1988, section on "Membership in National Socialist Organizations", as cited, e.g., in, Israeli-Ugandan Relations in the Time of Idi Amin by. Some Germans had stayed in Austria partly because they thought that the Occupation, which was not called Occupation, would be less rigorous and less de-Nazifying than it was in Germany. Allegations concerning Dr. Kurt Waldheim hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, [Leather Bound] Consequently, he chose not to run for a second term in 1992. Kurt Waldheim was born in a village outside Vienna on Dec. 21, 1918, the eldest son of a conservative Roman Catholic school inspector. Shortly afterwards, he ran and was defeated in the 1971 Austrian presidential elections. [13] According to one post-war investigator, prisoners were routinely shot within only a few hundred metres (yards) of Waldheim's office,[14] and 35 kilometres (22mi) away at the Jasenovac concentration camp. His father, Walter, the son of an impoverished blacksmith, became the local school superintendent and . A son, Gerhard, and another daughter, Christa, followed. The U.S. ban was never lifted. There was no comment or statement from the governors office Thursday on the death of Waldheim.). Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. He served as First Secretary of the Legation in Paris from 1948, and in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Vienna from 1951 to 1956. During 196870 he served as Austrian foreign minister. [49][50] The 232-page internal Department of Justice 9 April 1987 investigative report was released in 1994 by that agency, and it is available at the agency's website. VIENNA (Reuters) - Former U.N. chief and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, whose career was tainted by disclosures of his Nazi past, was buried in a state funeral on Saturday. An account published in the Los Angeles Times in 1971 described him this way: Waldheim is very much the diplomats diplomat: conservative in dress, elegant in manner and discreet to a fault.. On this day in 1987, the Justice and State departments . During his campaign to become president in 1986, it became public that . Fred Norris as Kurt Waldheim Jr. and Quentin the Stutterer; Robin Quivers vs Darren the Foot Licker in a best-of-3 tennis match (with Fred the Elephant Boy as umpire) Howard Stern vs Gary Dell'Abate in a best-of-7 tennis match; Vinnie Mazzeo lights his head on fire and Dr. Marshall King hypnotises Kimberly Taylor; Gina Man and Crazy Jerry VIENNA, Austria - Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German army unit that . Donald Trump Jr. claims US train network is being sabotaged as revenge for Nord Stream 2 after derailments in Ohio and Michigan . "[35], A short time later, beginning on 4 March 1986, the World Jewish Congress alleged that Waldheim had lied about his service in the mounted corps of the SA and had concealed his service as a special missions staff officer (Ordonnanzoffizier) for Germany's Army Group E in Yugoslavia and Greece, from 1942 to 1944, based primarily on captured German wartime records held at the United States National Archives in Washington, DC, and in other archives. Congress had passed the Holtzman Act, named after Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, to legalize the expulsion and prevention of suspected Nazi criminals from the U.S. thirty years after the end of WWII. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. hide. Cardinal . This argument may have merit but it did not change the U.S. position. After a period as director general for political affairs in the Austrian Foreign Ministry, he became his countrys ambassador to the UN (196468, 197071). Still, the Waldheim affair took up a lot of our time. [40], Part of the reason for the controversy was Austria's refusal to address its national role in the Holocaust (many leading Nazis, including Adolf Hitler, had been born Austrians, and Austria became part of the Third Reich). Japan and Syria were the only two countries that laid wreaths on his grave. [42], Because the revelations leading to the Waldheim affair came shortly before the presidential election, there has been speculation about the background of the affair. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith surnamed Vaclavik. The same year, he was made an honorary member of K.H.V. They thought he was treated badly by the U.S. As a result of the ban Waldheim had a tainted presidency. But he was an important guy. And so, apparently in the clear, Waldheim entered the Austrian foreign service at wars end. Kurt Waldheim; Sankt Andre-Verdern, blizu Bea, Austrija, 21. decembar 1918 Be 14. jun 2007) je bio austrijski politiar i diplomata.Njegov izbor za predsednika Austrije 1986. godine bio je zasenjen otkriima da je pripadao jedinici Hitlerovog Vermahta koja je u tadanjoj Jugoslaviji poinila ratne zloine nad civilima tokom Drugog svetskog rata. The World Jewish Congress also visited the Department to gain support for doing it. - Photo agency: Newsweek. When they emigrated to the United States they hid their Nazi past. 5), page 188. He had been stationed in Yugoslavia when atrocities were committed. Sklici in opombe Glej tudi . Nearly a decade later, he brought himself to accept that lying about his past was wrong. The Waldheim Waltz: Directed by Ruth Beckermann. Waldheims initial denial of his Nazi past and obfuscation mirrored that of a nation. La yaro 1918 (MCMXVIII per Romala algarismi) esis ordinara yaro komencinta ye mardio segun Gregoriala kalendario, ed ordinara yaro komencinta ye lundio segun Juliala kalendario.Ol esis la 918ma yaro di la duesma yarmilo, la 18ma yaro di la 20ma yarcento, e la 9ma yaro di la yari 1910a.Kande 1918 komencis, Gregoriala kalendario esis 13 dii avan Juliala kalendario, qua duris uzesar en kelka loki . Waldheim published an autobiography. He did lie about his military service. Waldheim was a member of the Austrian People's Party, a World War II Veteran and . Following the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, his father changed the family surname to . Both were interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy. 463. Janks go on a date with John DeBella's wife (which Howard predicted would happen in his battle with DeBella in Philadelphia), the "Gross Video Contest" winners, Boy-Gary dressed as an ape and . Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) served as secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. The former Secretary General of the United Nations and Ambassador to France and Canada was initially seen as an obvious choice for the position, which is primarily a ceremonial role. You might remember that we took the high moral road right after the war and declared that anyone who had belonged to the Nazi Party could only work at menial jobs. Under U.S. law the Justice Department makes the decision. Did he know that some bad things were going on? [40] His former immediate superior at the time stated that Waldheim had "remained confined to a desk". [40] Nevertheless, he admitted that he had known about German reprisals: "Yes, I knew. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht . OSI would track down a former concentration camp guard who lied on his immigration forms. He retired in 1992, never again to assume a public role outside Austria. Four years after returning from New York to Austria, Waldheim was hot on the campaign trail, all but certain of an . [52], Additional allegations of participation in Nazi crimes, with citations to captured Nazi documents and other records, were leveled in a 1993 book by Eli Rosenbaum, the former U.S. federal prosecutor who had directed the World Jewish Congress investigation that led to the New York Times' initial exposure of Waldheim's hidden Nazi-era past in 1986. report. Those who relate this film only to current problems . His aides at the United Nations even accused the Israeli mission of spreading rumors that he supported the Nazis. The Austrians, of course, were beside themselves. Kurt Waldheim . Title Year Status Character; Howard Stern on Demand: 2006-2007: TV Series: Himself: 60 Minutes: 2006: TV Series documentary: Himself - Writer (segment "Howard Stern") Known for movies. His service from 1942 to 1945 was the subject of international review in 1985 and 1986. Jun 14, 2007 at 3:03 pm. In his 1985 memoir, "In the Eye of the Storm," Kurt Waldheim described Austria in the aftermath of World War I as "the defeated, ruined, truncated remnant of the former Austro-Hungarian Habsburg Empire.". Secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-81). Shortly before his birth the Habsburg monarchy had collapsed, and his father, whose Czech family had been called Watzlawick . What the U.N. needs is a quiet approach, he said. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. 21 June 2007. Klestils friendships didnt do him much good. [16], Waldheim denied that he knew war crimes were taking place in Bosnia at the height of the battles between the Nazis and Tito's partisans in 1943. Last week, former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim died at the age of 88. In the meantime, Congress passed a law, the Holtzman Act, named after a Congresswoman who introduced it. [22] His diplomatic efforts particularly in the Middle East were overshadowed by the diplomacy of then U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. [Waldheim] was banned from the United States for his whole term of office, and because he wasnt allowed into the United States, most other major countries did not invite him for official visits. He served in Paris (194851) and was head of the personnel department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna from 1951 to 1955. So when the negotiations were completed he flew to London to pick up a plane that would get him home sooner. He probably signed some papers that had to do with deportations and so on. No less a figure than the late Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi hunter from Vienna, refused to label Waldheim a war criminal, although he was certain Waldheim knew more than he admitted. In the years between the discovery of his scandalous past and his death, Waldheim steadfastly portrayed himself as an ordinary, unheroic citizen caught up in a maelstrom, a point Herzstein reflected upon. The commission did not say Waldheim personally participated in the bloodshed, and he seized on that to claim that he had essentially been exonerated. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. In 1994, Pope John Paul II awarded Waldheim a knighthood in the Order of Pius IX and his wife a papal honor. Waldheim had served a painful term as Austrian President, marked from beginning . It was a period when the world body was increasingly dominated by third world rhetoric and paralyzed by disagreements between the superpowers. He died of heart failure, the state broadcaster ORF reported. During his campaign to become President of Austria, the Social Democrat opposition made charges about his activities during the war. We were treating Austria shabbily and finally the State Department forced the Justice Department to negotiate a new arrangement. Corrections? Read more stories about World War II. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kurt-Waldheim, British Broadcasting Corporation - Kurt Waldheim, United Nations - Biography of Kurt Waldheim, Kurt Waldheim - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). New U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Vienna and met with Waldheim in February; Bans aides hastened to characterize the visit as private and personal.. Hnt syytettiin osallisuudesta murhaan sek salaliittoon ja sieppaukseen, joiden . While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Despite resistance from new member China, Waldheim was elected secretary-general of the U.N. and assumed office in January 1972. 463. [14], Waldheim's name appears on the Wehrmacht's "honour list" of those responsible for the militarily successful operation. A year after the first allegations surfaced, the U.S. Justice Department took the highly unusual step of placing the sitting Austrian presidents name on a watch list, which prohibited him from entering the United States. Waldheim did not attend but sent a gift, prompting Schwarzenegger to give what participants described as a very emotional toast in Waldheims honor. He won election to the Austrian presidency in June 1986 for a six-year term. "[40] He said that he had never fired a shot or even seen a partisan. And he portrayed himself as the victim of a smear campaign orchestrated by outside, foreign forces. The Pope received him, and that got people unhappy here. Kurt Waldheim. [23], On 11 September 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin sent a telegram to Waldheim, copies of which went to Yasser Arafat and Golda Meir. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. That is why they preferred him. He was 88. Kurt Waldheim, who was president of Austria from 1986 to 1992, systematically lied about his wartime past. In early 1941, Waldheim was drafted into the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, specifically to the Heer (Army), and posted to the Eastern Front where he served as a squad leader. Waldheim resoundingly defeated Echeverra in the first round of voting. There were a lot of them around. SPIRO: My job was to track down members of the former German intelligence services in Austria. So even if they were Romanians or Yugoslavs, if they emigrated to the U.S. from Austria they could be deported back to Austria. [26], Waldheim ran for a second term in the 1976 UN Secretary-General selection. Foreign Affairs magazine, SeptemberOctober, 1995 (Volume 74 No. By William Walter Kay Global Research, February 22, 2023 Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. In the immediate aftermath of the fighting, an Allied war crimes commission recommended that he be tried as a war criminal. Waldheim later stated that "he did not know about the murder of civilians there". D uring Kurt Waldheim's Austrian presidential campaign in the spring of 1986, that nation's collective consciousness experienced a painful return of the repressed, a psychological agony . Later investigations showed that Kurt Waldheim, despite claims that he never belonged to any Nazi organization, apparently joined a Nazi student union three weeks after the Anschluss and then ran with the so-called brownshirts, a Nazi paramilitary group. Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, accused by Jewish groups of participating in Nazi war crimes, today was barred from entering the United States because of evidence that he persecuted people . That was true. [10], Much historical interest has centred on Waldheim's role in Operation Kozara in 1942. "We lived in daily apprehension.". Or, as his critics at the time put it, pliant and passive. (Waldheim, second from left, with Italian General Ercole Roncaglia, Col. Hans Herbert Macholz, and SS-GruppenfhrerArtur Phleps at Podgorica airfield, May 1943.). Theres an office in the Justice Department, the Office of Special Investigations, which is dedicated to uncovering former Nazis. Waldheims later claims that he spent the rest of World War II studying law at the University of Vienna were contradicted by the rediscovery in 1986 of documents suggesting that he had been a German army staff officer stationed in the Balkans from 1942 to 1945. "But this nonguilt must not be confused with innocence. Today's Highlight in History: On March 10, 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, who was the Soviet Union's . And there was some fear that because of Finlands position, he might be subject to Soviet pressures. "[25], After Operation Entebbe on 7 July 1976 in which Israeli commandos freed more than 100 Israeli and Jewish passengers held captive in Entebbe Airport (Uganda's main airport) by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and German Revolutionary Cells fighters protected by forces of dictator Idi Amin, and where all the hijackers, three hostages, and 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed Waldheim described the raid as a "serious violation of the national sovereignty of a United Nations member state". Song, Little Ricky 8/14/86 Susan Berkley, Cindi Lauper Record, Phila. [West German Chancellor Helmut] Kohl used to meet with him unofficially when Kohl was on his annual summer vacation in Austria. He was soon conscripted into the German army, however, and served on the Russian front until 1941, when he was wounded. Kurt Josef Waldheim (German pronunciation: [kt valdham]; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Hes also a sign of Mexicos healthcare crisis, Bola Tinubu, the declared winner of Nigerias presidential election, appeals for unity, A 5,000-year-old restaurant highlights Iraqs archaeological renaissance, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, 19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff, Fiery Greece train collision kills 32, injures at least 85, Column: Supreme Court conservatives may want to block student loan forgiveness. Waldheim had unsuccessfully sought election as President of Austria in 1971, but his second attempt on 8 June 1986 proved successful. After six weeks of deadlock, Waldheim and Salim both withdrew from the race. "@Anti_PC_Culture @Cl3v3rGurl @CissyScum You're where comedic timing (and physical fitness) go to die." [25] Amidst international protest, "the UN spokesman said [in his daily press conference] it was not the secretary-general's practice to comment on telegrams sent him by heads of government. At the U.N., Kurt Waldheim was known as "the man who the world trusts.". He was secretary-general of the United Nations (1972-81) and . His father was of Czech origin and was employed as a Roman Catholic inspector of schools. [56] He died on 14 June 2007, at the age of 88 from heart failure. Normally thats what the Austrian President does. After recovering, he returned to active duty in the spring of 1942 and was seconded to the service of Gen. Alexander Lohr, a fellow Austrian who led a string of brutal campaigns against Yugoslav partisans and dispatched some 40,000 Greek Jews to Auschwitz. It was odd. As is now known, he fought on the Eastern Front until he was wounded in December 1941. With Howard Stern, Dominic Barbara, Richard Belzer, Downtown Julie Brown. Butthe Pope has his own foreign policy. When defending himself against assertions that he had links to the Nazis, Waldheim always asserted that he never had belonged to a Nazi-affiliated group. [9] Shortly thereafter he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing. But for whatever reason, he and thousands of others eluded prosecution in the chaos of postwar Europe. [57] On 23 June, his funeral was held at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, and he was buried at the Presidential Vault in the Zentralfriedhof ("central cemetery"). In my view he was the kind of person and there are many of his type in Austria who goes along to get along. However, first and foremost, it is a film about the process of the affair. Waldheim did not challenge the authenticity of the documents and instead sought to explain his actions as the hard choices one must make during a reign of terror to survive and to protect ones family and future. They would have the person renounce his or her U.S. citizenship. [33]:411 The events of 1981 established a two-term limit on the office, and no Secretary-General since Waldheim has run for a third term. He said that he had known about some of the things that had happened, and had been horrified, but could not see what else he could have done. The aristocratic poseur, Waldheim, was the grandson of a Czech blacksmith . Kurt Waldheim, the erudite diplomat who served as secretary-general of the United Nations and Austria's president but left the world stage a pariah after his Nazi past was . But sure, its this kind of ex post facto thing that we got into. Waldheims precise involvement in these brutalities would be a matter of debate and investigation for years to come. Kurt Josef Waldheim ; 21 December 1918 - 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Knfel, Ulrike and Kraske, Marion (4 April 2008), Wiesenthal, Simon (1999) "The Waldheim Case" in. A fireball can never be helpful in this situation. Kurt Waldheim, a widely esteemed former secretary general of the United Nations, was running for president of Austria in March 1986 when it came to light that he had participated in Nazi . Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army as a volunteer (193637) before he began to study for a diplomatic career. However, this knowledge was not used against Waldheim, because the Finns believed he would not be chosen anyway due to the United States having promised to veto him. Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army . But thanks to his parents' middle-class standing, he and his brother and sister suffered few of the economic deprivations that most Austrians endured during the 1920s. Many Austrians apparently viewed Waldheim's life as a parable of their own. Active in the Christian Social Party, he was well regarded as a devoutly Catholic family man. Escola Roncagli; Waldheim; German Col. Hans Herbert Macholtz and General of the 7th SS-Division, General Artur Phelps. 1. For two years beginning in 1968, he was the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Austrian People's Party, before going back as Permanent Representative to the U.N. in 1970. Waldheim's father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. [53] In a letter to the editor published in Foreign Affairs magazine two years after Rosenbaum's book was released, former Finnish ambassador to the U.N. Max Jakobson (one of the candidates whom the USSR had vetoed) wrote, "The Soviets knew everything about Waldheim. At Waldheim's own request, no foreign heads of states or governments were invited to attend his funeral except Hans-Adam II, the Prince of Liechtenstein. 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