Kurt Waldheim is dead...

breaking on CNN.

Former UN Secretary-General and nazi scumbag has expired.


Edit:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19223728/

Arnold with Kurt Waldheim

Arnold openly supported Kurt Waldheim, Former UN chief and a former Austrian politician
who participated in Nazi atrocities during World War II. Schwarzenegger's name remained
on Waldheim's campaign posters, even after allegations of Waldheim's war crimes were
brought to light. Waldheim was even invited to Arnold's wedding.

http://www.arnoldexposed.com/arnold.htm

Screw it. Where's my dancing shoes?

he wasn't an awful UN S-G. I would wish all nazis devoted their post-war careers to making peace.

I'm not a big fan of Waldheim's, but I'm pleased he at least tried to do well.

EEKS!!!


He even looks evil!!

Looks just like him!! :P

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,482019,00.html

But Mr Waldheim's problem was precisely because he was a "monument to Austrian averageness", as Thurnherr puts it. He found himself at the centre of a long-awaited inter-generational conflict in which young people started asking questions of their elders such as: "How did you do it?", "Why did you do it?" and "Why didn't you stand up against Hitler?" The reply was generally: "How dare you young people criticise us - you weren't there, you know nothing."

It was a questioning process that had already begun in Germany some 20 years before. "It was the war generation's lack of remorse and their arrogance that they were right which got to us," says a Viennese man who was a 17-year old student at the time.

"Waldheim represented perfectly the attitude of getting away with it, of being part of a regime and managing to resurface after it, which represents the attitudes of a whole generation."



Rather interesting part of the article isn't it?

I love when some total asshole dies and then we have these "Peace be with them and their families."

As though they've atoned by dying...everyone dies...it in itself doesn't allow for the expiation of atrocious sins. Lee Atwater-Syndrome I call it.

Not all of the assholes do that. Granted, shortly before death isn't the ideal time to repent; but it's more than I can say for others.

precisely because it is so banal

Kurt Waldheim is dead...good!

Zombies can be such a bother.

A great man. Hertzstein, not Waldheim.

in the mid-80s the Anschluss, who worked with it and who benefited from it, was largely a taboo subject, kinda like racism in the pre-Civil Rights era South. The oldsters just glossed over it if you tried to talk about it.

I think Waldheim's UNSG gig and his subsequent stint as Austria's president drew all of that out into the open. So, in that respect he did them a world of good, albeit if only unwittingly.