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Waldheim at top secret Nazi briefing NEW YORK—A captured Nazi war document places Kurt Waldheim at a top secret briefing given by a senior German general on the attempted assassination of Hitler and on security discus sions with SS chief Heinrich Himmler. “The Fuhrer has given orders that nobody must blame the offi cer corps for the (assassination) attempt,” the document quotes the general as saying. The document reveals that only one other German officer took part in these secret discussions. It shatters Waldheim’s repeated claims he served in the war as only a low-level “clerk.” (After his election as Austrian president, Waldheim told a for mal Vienna news conference on June 11 he was “a sort of secre tary and nothing more” during the war.) World Jewish Congress inves tigators located the document among captured Nazi war records in the U.S. National Archives in Washington. The document, which identifies Waldheim by name at the secret intelligence briefing, has been turned over to the U.S. Justice Department. Dated Aug. 4, 1944, the doc ument is stamped “secret com mand matter" and is headed “Memorandum concerning dis cussions with the chief.” It reports on the secret discussions of Wald heim, an officer identified as “Frey” and Gen. August Winter, chief of the general staff of the entire Germany Army in the Balkans. The discussions ranged from complaints about the poor qual ity of the Italian troops allied to the Germans—“They fail and give themselves up without a fight”— to concern about the currency crisis in Greece affecting the Nazis’ ability “to get out of the country what can be gotten.” General Winter tells the two intelligence officers that “only a very small nucleus of officers” Austrian Jewish leaders gather for prayer on eve of Yom Kippur by Reinhard Engel VIENNA (JTA)—Austrian political and church leaders made significant gestures toward the Jewish community over Yom Kippur to counteract the up surge of anti-Semitism which ac companied last summer’s presi dential election campaign. For the first time in Austrian history, dignitaries of the Catho lic and Lutheran churches met with Austrian Chief Rabbi Chaim Eisenberg and leading members of the Jewish community for a “joint hour of meditation” on Yom Kippur eve. Later, Chan cellor Franz Vranitzky visited the Vienna synagogue for a prayer service. The hour of meditation was initiated by Catholic Action and the Laymen’s Council. It was held in the main hall of the Aus trian National Library, a build ing erected by Emperor Josef 11 who granted Jews civil rights in Austria in the latter half of the 18th century. The historic symbolism of the site was not coincidental. Obser vers noted that Austria’s small Jewish community is in need of reassurance because of the anti- Semitism that greeted the expo sure of President Kurt Waldheim’s Nazi past by Jewish organiza tions before and since the July 8 elections. The new bishop of Vienna, Hans Hermann Groer, and the senior pastor of the Lutheran Church, Alfred Jahn, attended along with Chief Rabbi Eisen berg, Ivan Hacker, president of the Jewish community and oth ers. Paul Schulmeister, president of Catholic Action, said, “This joint meeting cannot be taken for granted, but is indeed very neces sary. 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At another point in the discus sions, the document shows, Waldheim briefs the general on the situation in France, Italy, the Balkans, and local conditions. The “situation in the East” is reported on by Frey. At the end of the meeting, the discussions turn to a long-stand ing dispute over responsibility for security matters between the Wehrmacht (army) and the SS. Winter reports that in his con versation with Himmler, the SS chieftain had resolved the dis pute in favor of the SS. “The relationship between the Wehrmacht and the SS-Police commander has now been defi nitely settled,” Winter states. In releasing the document, the WJC said it was “astounding at how senior an intelligence level Waldheim operated.” In turning the document over to the Justice Department, the WJC said it has now transferred some 2,000 pages of material on Waldheim. “The time has come for Attor ney General Meese to implement the findings of his Office of Spe cial Investigations and ban Wald heim from entering the United States.” FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, LOOKING FOR WORK IS THE HARDEST JOB THEY’LL EVER HAVE. If you're a very will ins, eager worker but you don’t like to look for a job. Or you don’t know how or where. Call us. Whether it’s your first job, or you’re re entering the workforce. Or between jobs. Or you'd like help improving your job search skills such as resume writing or your inter viewing technique, call us. For some people this service just means an evaluation of their job hunting abilities. For others it means an actual job placement. 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