Kurt Waldheim
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Kurt Josef Waldheim ( ; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992. While running for President in Austria in 1985, his service as an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II raised international controversy.
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“There is no such thing as collective guilt.”
—Kurt Waldheim (b. 1918)
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