LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Kurt Waldheim managed an impressive feat: After serving as a soldier and intelligence officer in the Nazi army during World War II, he was twice elected secretary-general of ...

BERLIN (JTA) — An Austrian-Jewish filmmaker’s documentary about the 1986 campaign to unearth the Nazi-era past of Kurt Waldheim has won a top prize at the 68th Berlinale International Film ...

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Ruth Beckermann documents the process of uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. It shows the swift succession of new allegations by the World Jewish Congress during ...

Despite revelations about his Nazi past, in 1986 Austria elected Kurt Waldheim, a former UN secretary-general, to be its president. Nevertheless, Israel did not close its offices in Vienna but ...