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As a direct result of that action, Klaus Barbie did not stand trial in France in 1950; he spent 33 years as a free man and a fugitive from justice. The French discovered that Barbie was in U.S. hands; having sentenced him to death in absentia for war crimes , they made a plea to John J. McCloy , US High Commissioner for Germany, to hand him ...
Nazi War Crimes Trials: Table of Contents | Auschwitz Trials | Nuremburg Trials. On May 11, 1987, after four years of legal wrangling, Klaus Barbie, the SS officer in charge of the Gestapo in Lyon, France from November, 1942 to August, 1944, would finally attend his long overdue meeting with justice. There was little doubt that Klaus Barbie, a ...
Barbie’s trial was a major public event, prompting serious conversations in France about the war, the French Resistance, and the Holocaust. The trial concluded in 1987. Barbie was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Klaus Barbie, the former Nazi Gestapo chief of German-occupied Lyon, France, goes on trial in Lyon more than four decades after the end of World War II. He was charged with 177 crimes against...
In Izieu, France, Gestapo official Klaus Barbie crossed a final threshold of criminality. Targeting the Most Vulnerable: Klaus Barbie and the Izieu Children’s Home | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
Jul 4, 1987 · July 4, 1987 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. LYON, France — Klaus Barbie, once the most feared Nazi in Lyon, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment early today for a series of “crimes...
May 23, 1987 · The court trying Klaus Barbie, which often echoes with whispers, was still and silent today as Simone Lagrange recounted how, as a 13-year-old, she was beaten senseless by Mr. Barbie, who was...
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