Deportation tied to Waldheim

Press, 9 July 1986, Page 10

Deportation tied to Waldheim

NZPA-AP Jerusalem The World Jewish Congress released a document yesterday that it said proved that Kurt Waldheim’s intelligence unit had ordered that Greek Jews be deported from the Greek islands of Rhodes and Crete. The document took the accusations against Dr Waldheim one step further than previous allegations that he knew about the deportations during World War 11.

Dr Waldheim, sworn in today as President of Austria, has acknowledged that he served with the German Army in the Balkans in World War 11. He has denied W.J.C. accusations that his unit committed war crimes or that he knew of deportation of Jews. Elan Steinberg, a W.J.C. official, said the document had been found last week in World War II federal archives in Freiburg, West Germany. It was a four-page field

report from Dr Waldheim’s intelligence unit and contained one paragraph about the deportation of Jews. The W.J.C. translated ' the document from Ger- j man. On page three, the ! W.J.C. translated a section ; .called "Deportation of Jews: End of July 1944.” It read, “deportation of Jews not holding Turkish , citizenship in the entire ; command territory upon i. instructions of the High Command of Army Group j: E, IC/AO. Execution in I

hahds of S.D.-Greece.” 1 ii '• Mr Steinberg said Army Group E, IC/AO was a reference to Dr Waldheim’s unit of intelligence and counter-intelli-gence and S.D.-Greece referred to an intelligence Section of the Nazi S.S. command. ; The . New York-based congress said about 2500 ;lews were shipped to the {Auschwitz concentration ;camp, in Poland, where ■nearly all of them were killed in August, 1944.