Klaus Barbie
Military Person
1913 – 1991
Who was Klaus Barbie?
Nikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie was an SS-Hauptsturmführer and Gestapo member. He was known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners of the Gestapo while stationed in Lyon, France. After the war, United States intelligence services employed him for their anti-Marxist efforts and also helped him escape to South America. The Bundesnachrichtendienst, the west German intelligence agency, recruited him, and he may have helped the CIA capture Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara in 1967. Barbie is also suspected of having a hand in the Bolivian coup d'état orchestrated by Luis García Meza Tejada in 1980. After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie no longer had the protection of the Bolivian government and in 1983 was extradited to France, where he was convicted of war crimes and died in prison.
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- Born
- Oct 25, 1913
Bad Godesberg - Also known as
- Klaus Altmann
- Nikolaus Barbie
- Nikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie
- The Butcher of Lyon
- Parents
- Siblings
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- German Empire
- West Germany
- Germany
- Profession
- Lived in
- Argentina
(1951 - ) - Bolivia
( - 1983) - Lyon
(1983 - 1991/09/25)
- Argentina
- Died
- Sep 25, 1991
Lyon
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on July 23, 2013
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