Kurt Waldheim — WWII Wehrmacht staff officer in Balkans during operations involving mass deportations (~50,000 Jews from Thessaloniki, most killed). No proven direct crimes. Later UN Secretary-General and President of Austria.

    by I_am_white_cat_YT

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    1. Haven’t thought about old Kurt in a long time. He was in power during my youth (The second part of his life).

    2. Were the wehrmacht doing deportations and involved in holocaust? I thought it was done only by gestapo and SS Waffen.

    3. Random fact about this guy: his voice can be heard on the Golden Record sent into space, since he was the president of the UN at that time.

    4. As this demonstrated, denazification has never been fully implemented in West Germany and Austria, and Austria up till the 90s kept parading themselves as the “first victims” (despite having welcomed the Nazis marching in Vienna)

    5. 2nW_from_Markus on

      Is there a correlation between the size of an austian ear and his willingness to show his right armpit?

    6. Ok-Resource-3232 on

      In Austria we tend to say: “I note that Kurt Waldheim was never in the SA, only his horse was.”

      Based on the famous sarcastic quote by Fred Sinowatz.

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