Bronfman and the WJC also helped in the campaign to identify Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations secretary general and president of Austria, as a Nazi war criminal.
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In 1971, Austrian Kurt Waldheim took over as U.N. secretary-general after U That retired.
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In 1986, a worldwide outcry over the successful presidential campaign of Kurt Waldheim an ex-secretary-general of the United Nations and former Wehrmacht officer accused of abetting war crimes smashed Austria's post-war consensus for good.