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Austrian Kurt Waldheim managed to hide the fact that he was a Nazi war criminal long enough to become head of the UN. During the time Waldheim was head of the UN, one third of the extensive UN archives of Holocaust records and interviews with Holocaust survivors disappeared.

Waldheim wrote two autobiographies in which he lied and said he spent WWII in Berlin because of a leg injury.

When it was exposed that that was a lie, Waldheim’s excuses were:

Book #1—He didn’t think anyone would be interested in what he did during the war.
Book #2—It was the fault of the person who wrote the book for him.

Waldheim was asked to explain photographs of him standing between two German officers [both of whom were executed for war crimes after the war] at a landing pad in Serbia during the war. He said he was just the translator and he didn’t listen to the sense of what they saying.

Then papers in Waldheim’s own handwriting and signed by him turned up listing those killed in Serbian villages:

“248 bandits executed. 95 men, 104 women, 49 children.”
and so on.

More such material turned up concerning an island off Greece where papers on similar massacres were written up and signed by Waldheim.

“Frankl downplayed the guilt of Austrian Nazis, even many decades after the war had ended. Stressing that there were good men among the SS, he absolved Austria of any responsibility for Nazi war crimes.

“In 1988 he accepted an award from Kurt Waldheim, who had been elected president of Austria in the face of a scandal: Waldheim had concealed his service in a Wehrmacht unit that massacred Serbian civilians. Along with Bruno Kreisky, Austria’s Jewish ex-chancellor, Frankl helped Waldheim rehabilitate his image.”