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...Every Jewish family in Lyon has a loved one, a father or a grandfather who was a victim of Barbie. No one among them has forgotten...
Jacques Block, President of the Jewish Federation of Lyon "Forty years have passed...I have forgotten. If they have not forgotten, it is their business." Klaus Barbie, February...
KLAUS BARBIE almost got away with genocide. With the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Barbie, the notorious Gestapo chief of Lyon in occupied France, mysteriously slipped through an international dragnet and found asylum in South America, leaving behind the bodies of thousands of his victims. For thirty-two years he evaded Nazi hunters and scoffed at extradition attempts and death sentences passed in absentia by the French courts of justice. Barbie had played the war crime game...
Barbie's story began in November 1942 with his appointment as chief of the Gestapo's Fourth sector at Lyon after serving in the Hitler Youth and the S.S. Upon his arrival in France, Barbie assembled the tools of his trade-whips, clubs and two-by-fours-and set about earning the nickname that would follow him throughout his life-the Butcher of Lyon, Raymond Aubrac, a resistance member captured during the war, remembers that "it was not sophisticated torture, just brutal...there was nothing intellectual about his methods. He just asked the same questions over and over again...
EXPELLED. Klaus Barbie, 69, alias Klaus Altmann, the "Butcher of Lyon"; from Bolivia, to which he fled in 1951. An SS captain who was Lyon Gestapo chief from 1942 to 1944, he was sentenced to death in absentia by French courts for active complicity in killing some 11,600 French Jews and Resistance fighters. Barbie was returned to France, where he will probably be tried again, since that country abolished the death penalty...