Today, 39 years ago, on 8 June 1986 (Calendar 2 May 1986), Waldheim was easily elected President of Austria. Waldheim On 8 June 1986, Kurt-Waldheim was elected President of Austria for a six-year term with an unexpected majority of votes. This victory was obtained in the accusations against the former UN Secretary-General. During World War II, he was said to be a member of the German army that sent thousands of Greek Jews into the Nazi death camps. Kurt-Waldheim¡¯s socialist campaign opponent, Dr. Kurt-Steiler, publicly declared that he believed the anti-Waldheim movement that the World Jewish Association had launched had actually produced an appropriate outcome, sparking anti-Jewish sentiment in the hearts of the Austrian people. Waldheim, in his