EP36: Kurt Waldheim
The Hated and the Dead - A podcast by Tom Leeman - Sundays
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Kurt Waldheim served as President of Austria from 1986 until 1992. During the presidential campaign of 1986, revelations about Waldheim's service for the Nazis in Greece and Yugoslavia came to light, with Waldheim eventually admitting he had previously downplayed his actions in the Second World War. The Waldheim Affair triggered a period of collective reflection in Austria on the country's past, and demonstrated the differences between how Germany and Austria remembered the crimes of the Nazi...
