Klaus Barbie Biography (1913–91) (known as the Butcher of Lyon)

Nazi leader, born in Bad Godesberg, W Germany. He joined the Hitler Youth in 1931, graduating to the SS, and worked for the Gestapo in the Netherlands, Russia, and finally Lyon, where he sent thousands of people to Auschwitz. After the War, he fled to South America with his family under an assumed name, but was traced by Nazi hunters, and extradited from Bolivia in 1983. He was tried in France on 177 crimes against humanity, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Bonn, Nazi Party


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