Waldheim: The Missing Years - Robert Edwin Herzstein

Waldheim: The Missing Years - Robert Edwin Herzstein

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White Card with Kurt Waldheim's signature stuck to the second page of book. Also enclosed is a letter from the Office of Dr Kurt Waldheim in Wien in which it is confirmed that the signature is genuine.

Hardcover, ISBN 0246133813
Publisher: Grafton Books-, 1988 first British edition.

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of wear and tear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.

In 'Waldheim. The Missing Years', Professor Robert E. Herzstein, a historian at the University of South Carolina, reveals Kurt Waldheim's hidden past. What did Waldheim do during the war years, of which he himself remembers so little? Professor Robert Herzstein bases his work on documents that have never been published before and an extensive interview with Kurt Waldheim himself. Waldheim's youth, his student days and his military service in Hitler's Third Reich are discussed.
After two years of controversy, a balanced interpretation of the Waldheim affair has appeared. Herzstein, a leading scholar of the Nazi era, has produced a thorough analysis of Waldheim's wartime activities that is solidly rooted in primary source materials. Clearly superior to Bernard Cohen and Luc Rosenzweig's irresponsible Waldheim (LJ 6/1/87), Herzstein's book supplements documentary analysis with personal interviews of key figures, including Waldheim himself and former Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. The book also addresses the issue of Waldheim's personal guilt in the larger context of Austria's general collaboration with the Nazis. A fine work, highly recommended for most libraries.

Kurt Josef Waldheim ; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II, and of his knowledge of Nazi atrocities as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht,[1] raised international controversy.