European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 24, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3waldheim deliberately hid his past � d or says Washington a a spokesman for the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holo Caust studies said tuesday the Center has concluded that former . Secretary general Kurt Waldheim deliberately concealed his past to avoid revealing his serv ice under German generals hanged for world War ii nazi atrocities in the bal kans. The Center believes that Waldheim concealed his past not Only because he did not want people to know where he was during that period but also because he did not want people to know for whom he was working said rabbi Marvin Hier Dean of the los Angeles Center. Waldheim s son meanwhile told Mem Bers of Congress his father had made a terrible mistake in glossing Over his Ger Man military service in world War ii but he maintained that release of some secret yugoslav files on War crimes could help prove his father did not participate in atrocities. Kurt Waldheim was . Secretary general from 1972-82. He is a candidate for president of Austria. Waldheim has denied charges that he was involved in nazi atrocities during the War and has described himself As the victim of a smear Campaign. Gerhard Waldheim a Vienna banker told the House subcommittee on human rights and International organizations that his father had not concealed from him that he had served in the Balkans and that he had always expressed loathing for the War and sympathy for its victims. However Gerhard Waldheim came under Strong attack from a congressman who fled the nazis in his native Budapest. We might Honor or. Waldheim for his work at the ., but not if you and he persist in the big lie said rep. Tom Lan tos a Calif. Lantos said it is admirable for a son to defend his father but he added come a photo Kurt Waldheim s son Gerhard right meets rep. Stephen Solarz  left and sex austrian aide Karl Gruber in Washington As a panel probes the elder Waldheim s past. Clean. That s the Way you la help him. Of course he knew of the holocaust. Even a child with an 1q of 60 knew. To pretend that he did t know what was going on under his nose is an  Hier said Waldheim had worked on the command staffs of two of the few regular German army generals convicted and hanged As War criminals. They were identified As Alexander von Loehr and a Sec Ond general named Friederich von Stahl. Because of their convictions the Gener als names would have raised eyebrows which would have Hurt Waldheim s career As a budding world class Diplomat Hie said. The rabbi said the Wiesenthal Center named for nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal soviet . Vets renew pledges to tight Tor peace Lansing Mich. Up the Battle scarred men who met on the Banks of the Elbe River 41 years ago and toasted each other with whiskey in their canteens raised their toasts in glasses tuesday and renewed vows to fight for peace. The spirit of Elbe is living said red army col. Gen. Ivan Kashkin. Today we Are soldiers of  to was on april 25, 1945, at the Elbe River near Tougau now in East Germany that elements of the . And soviet forces met for the first time in world War ii cutting the nazi War machine in half. Kashkin and other soviet veterans of the historic link up Between the american and soviet armies in Germany Are touring various parts of the United states to promote world peace. Joining the soviets at the news conference were Mem Bers of the american forces at that historic meeting. It waa a Joyful meeting said Charles forester an american private in world War ii who was among the first to make Contact with the red army. When they found out we were american and we found out they were soviet it was a rejoice Ful  we held up soldiers canteens filled with whiskey and Vodka and made toasts to each other said maj. Gen. Aleksei Gorlinski one of those whom forester met. Kashkin said the soviet soldiers have Felt that a majority of american people Are vehemently against a nuclear War but that some people stubbornly put up obstacles to a stable  Leroy Wolins vice commander of veterans for peace which is helping coordinate the tour said the idea of hav ing soviet veterans of world War ii travel to the United states flowed from a reunion in Germany last year commemorating the 40th anniversary of the linkup. Undertook its own Independent investigations in Europe after the world jewish Congress alleged that Waldheim was involved in War crimes Between 1942 and 1945. The Center has not taken a position on Waldheim s personal participation or non participation in such activities Hier said stressing instead findings that in his Auto biography and elsewhere. Waldheim sought to conceal his past the Center also has evidence that Wald Heim s 1944 doctoral thesis at the univer sity of Vienna was a work discussing in a laudatory Way the Rich Sincen Imperial theories " of German philosopher Konstan tin Frantz described by Hier As a Noto rious 19th Century anti semite who believed one Way or another that the jewish question would have to be solved Oil her As he put it by chopping off the head of every jew. Or by driving the lot out to  although Waldheim is careful not to cite any of the anti semitic references of Konstantin Frantz his dissertation a tolls and endorses Frantz s greater Reich concept which sees Austria and other european countries absorbed by Germany Hie said. This was at Odds with statements in Waldheim s autobiography maintaining that he opposed Hitler s taking Over aus Tria he added. Waldheim now 67, would have been 23 when he wrote the thesis. Karl Gruber 78, a former anti nazi resistance Leader who became Austria s first foreign minister after the War and later ambassador to Washington testified that in Austria the Waldheim family was known As anti nazi. Gruber appointed Waldheim his personal Secretary in 1946 on the recommendation of Fritz Molden a . Office of strategic services official who later married the daughter of Allen Dulles first chief of the Central intelligence Agency. . Veteran Ralph Cadwallader right shows a wartime snapshot to former soviet maj. Aleksei Worlinsky. A photo