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- Oct. 07, 1991: Died:Klaus Barbie
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 71
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- <p> DIED. Klaus Barbie, 77, "the Butcher of Lyons," the Gestapo
- commander who ordered the execution and deportation of
- thousands of French citizens, mostly Jews and Resistance
- members, and who escaped to South America with the aid of U.S.
- intelligence agents; in Lyons. In 1943 Barbie's officers
- captured the head of the French Resistance, Jean Moulin, who
- died after being tortured. The following year Barbie ordered the
- roundup of 44 Jewish children in a village near Lyons, shipping
- them to concentration camps. In 1947 agents of the U.S. Army's
- Counter Intelligence Corps, knowing that Barbie had been a
- Gestapo captain, hired him to monitor former SS officers and
- communists in Germany. After the French government demanded in
- 1950 that Barbie be turned over for trial for war crimes, Army
- intelligence denied knowing his whereabouts but in fact helped
- Barbie flee to Bolivia in 1951 under the pseudonym Klaus
- Altmann. Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld helped find
- Barbie in 1972. In 1983 the Bolivian government expelled Barbie,
- and he was returned to France, where he was convicted in 1987
- of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison.
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