Scwartzenegger's Nazi problem

Timothy Noah writes, "Here's a question Jay Leno forgot to ask Arnold Schwarzenegger when
he announced his candidacy for governor of California on last night's 'Tonight Show': 'Will you
renounce your support for Kurt Waldheim?'... Waldheim had been an intelligence officer in
Germany's Army Group E when it committed mass murder in the Kozara region of western
Bosnia. (Waldheim's name appears on the Wehrmacht's 'honor list' of those responsible for the
atrocity.)... Schwarzenegger's name
remained on Waldheim's campaign posters. After Waldheim was elected, Schwarzenegger paid
him a visit and was photographed with him. According to the New York Post's 'Page Six' gossip
column, Schwarzenegger was seen sitting beside Waldheim as recently as 1998, when the two
attended the second inauguration of Waldheim's successor as president, Thomas Klestil."
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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.