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Will the same now be said of Klaus Barbie, who was less important but whose work was no less cruel? Barbie's trial is bound to attract worldwide attention. People are already saying this will be the last great courtroom drama to result from the Holocaust. They may be right...
...despite these fears, there will be a Judgment Day. The official examination of Klaus Barbie begins on May 11 in Lyons, France. No one knows how the story will end. But we know now how it all began...
...been captured. Beyond that, the arrest of all the Jewish personnel has taken place, namely 10 individuals, among them 5 women. It was not possible to secure any money or other valuables. Transportation to Drancy will take place on 4/7/44." The arrest order is signed in the name of Klaus Barbie...
...that an overly politicized world has shown for too long toward escaped SS killers. A victory too over the governments that helped Barbie. It was the Klarsfelds who picked up his trail -- he had disappeared for almost 40 years into the identity of a prosperous and peaceful businessman named Klaus Altmann living in Bolivia. They were the ones who managed to persuade Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government to act, to induce the Bolivian government to expel "Altmann" so that he could be returned to the country of his crimes...
...fact, The State of France v. Klaus Barbie is not a matter of war. It is a matter of truth. In Lyons, Barbie will have to answer not for his war crimes but for his crimes against humanity. For these there is no statute of limitations. He will have to explain, for example, why he condemned the Jewish children of Izieu. Listen to the words of one of those children, eleven-year-old Liliane Gerenstein, in a letter scrawled to God before she was taken on the road that led to the gas chambers: "It is thanks to You that...