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Kurt Waldheim led an archetypal life. David Pryce-Jones gives the details.(The Week)(Kurt Waldheim )(Obituary)(Brief article)

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| July 09, 2007 | Pryce-Jones, David | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

* Kurt Waldheim led an archetypal life. David Pryce-Jones gives the details (see p. 30). Here we stress the shape. Wherever Waldheim found himself--cheek by jowl with killing fields and deportation trains, snug in a ministry or U.N. office, rallying the yobs on the Austrian hustings--he fit in. He was Nazi, neutralist, internationalist, and populist by turns. In 1986 NR wrote that Waldheim was "so ...

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