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...Nazi war criminals have been so hated in France as Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon." While serving as head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, Barbie ordered the execution of more than 4,000 people and the deportation of 7,000 French Jews to concentration camps. His hands were also stained with the blood of Jean Moulin, France's most revered Resistance leader, who is believed to have died under torture in 1943. Twice Barbie was tried in absentia for his crimes and sentenced to death by French tribunals. But for more than three...
...from justice have yet to be told, but when he is brought to trial a third time, a Pandora's box of incriminating evidence against a number of French collaborators may be opened. The trial could even provide embarrassing details of a U.S. scheme to enlist the former Gestapo officer as an intelligence source after World...
...Klarsfelds, Lyon Magistrate Christian Riss decided to reopen the Barbie dossier in February 1982. This was necessary because his 1947 and 1954 convictions had lapsed as a result of France's 20-year statute of limitations on war crimes. Last November, Riss officially indicted the one time Gestapo captain for "crimes against humanity," giving the Mitterrand government legal ground for going after Barbie...
During their investigation, the Klarsfelds also concluded that Barbie might have had links to U.S. Intelligence in the years after the war. Because the Americans were using the Gestapo man to glean information on operations in Soviet-controlled areas, they allegedly refused to turn him over to French security. Erhard Dabringhaus, a language professor at Detroit's Wayne State University, worked for Army counterintelligence in 1948, and claims that he was ordered to find Barbie a safe house in Germany and pay him $1,700 a month, a sum that went a long way in postwar Europe...
SURPRISINGLY enough, Barbie led a high-profile existence in his newly adopted homeland. With the generous help of various right-wing military dictators. Barbie obtained Bolivian citizenship in 1957 and soon established a profitable external commerce company-in reality a front for an arms shipment network. The ex-Gestapo officer, appreciated for his contacts abroad, made friends in high places. As unofficial leader of a fairly large collection of exiled German war criminals hiding in Bolivia, Barbie was able to organize his cronies into a sophisticated paramilitary back-up unit for General Banzar, who took power...