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How Kurt Waldheim changed Austria

Film director Ruth Beckermann says that until the mid 1980s Austrians believed they were the first victims of the Nazis. Her film The Waldheim Waltz is about the time when Kurt Waldheim successfully ran for president despite being accused of war crimes.

(Picture: Kurt Waldheim in the film The Waldheim Waltz)

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2 minutes