Friday, August 08, 2003

Arnie - not just a son of a nazi

In 1986 he invited Kurt Waldheim to his wedding in Massachusetts. Waldheim, the former United
Nations secretary-general, was in the middle of winning his election as president of Austria and
"forgetting" his own role in Austria's Nazi wartime record. A year later Waldheim was banned
from entering America.

Schwarzenegger has also been photographed with Jorg Haider, leader of Austria's right-wing
Freedom party who last year was filmed at a secret reunion of the Waffen SS, the military arm
of the Nazi SS, praising them as "decent people".

Haider claimed not to know that the Waffen SS had been designated a criminal organisation at the
Nuremberg trials.

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