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<text id=91TT2255>
<title>
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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<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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