VIENNA, Austria – Former U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim, who was barred from the United States for two decades after revelations he belonged to a German army unit that committed World War II atrocities, ...

The Austrian documentarian Ruth Beckermann focuses on Kurt Waldheim, and she is clear on where she stands: She participated in protests against Waldheim. By Bilge Ebiri A historian whose prodigious ...

VIENNA, Austria — Former U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim, who was barred from the United States for two decades after revelations he belonged to a German army unit that committed World War II atrocities, ...

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 Festival.

Documentarian Ruth Beckermann believes that his political run in the 1980s was the start of a movement that is rocking Western Europe today. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Kurt Waldheim managed an impressive ...

Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president who became tainted by revelations that he hid his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died Thursday aged 88. Subscribe ...

When I met Kurt Waldheim in Vienna in 1994, the Balkans were doubly at issue, a generation apart. Though I lived in the Austrian capital, I was spending most of my time covering the brutal fighting ...

Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German army unit that committed atrocities in the Balkans in World War II, died Thursday. He ...

VIENNA, Austria — Former U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim, who was barred from the United States for two decades after revelations he belonged to a German army unit that committed World War II atrocities, ...

“Kurt Waldheim did not, in fact, order, incite or personally commit what is commonly called a war crime,” wrote Prof. Robert Edwin Herzstein of the University of South Carolina, a historian whose ...

ONCE, in more glorious times, the empire of Austria stretched from Prague and Cracow to Trent, below the Dolomites, and Ragusa on the Adriatic. Vienna drew the intelligentsia of Europe. Hungarian ...