The World - News from July 4, 1986
Kurt Waldheim’s wartime German army intelligence unit ordered the deportation of 2,500 Greek Jews to the Auschwitz death camp in July, 1944, according to a document unearthed by the World Jewish Congress. The German army document marks the first time the intelligence unit in the Balkans has been linked to actually ordering Jewish deportations to the camp. Waldheim, now Austrian president-elect, has repeatedly denied knowing of such deportations.
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