“I did nothing during the war that was not also done by hundreds of thousands of Austrians, that was my duty as a soldier.”

—  Kurt Waldheim

Ich habe im Krieg nichts anderes getan als hunderttausende Österreicher auch, nämlich meine Pflicht als Soldat erfüllt.
Waldheim Affair http://derstandard.at/2000031874110/Ich-habe-im-Krieg-nichts-anderes-getan-als-meine-Pflicht, 9 March 1986

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Ich habe im Krieg nichts anderes getan als hunderttausende Österreicher auch, nämlich meine Pflicht als Soldat erfüllt.

in einem Interview des ORF am 9. März 1986 zu Vorwürfen der Beteiligung an Judendeportationen; zitiert aus: Moshe Zuckermann (Herausg.): Deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-685-7, S. 148
ähnlich: "Ich habe meine Pflicht erfüllt, so wie hunderttausende Österreicher auch. Es handelt sich um eine groß angelegte Verleumdungskampagne. Sie werden nichts finden. Wir waren anständig." - zitiert im Nachruf des SPIEGEL 14. Juni 2007 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,488648,00.html
Source: 1. Michael Gehler: Die Affäre Waldheim: Eine Fallstudie zum Umgang mit der NS-Vergangenheit in den späten achziger Jahren. In: Rolf Steininger, Michael Gehler (Hrsg.): Österreich im 20. Jahrhundert. Band 2: Vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zur Gegenwart. Böhlau Verlag, Wien 1997, ISBN 3-205-98527-3, S. 358

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