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Klaus Barbie, 59, was the Gestapo chief in Lyon. In 1954, a French military court sentenced him to death in absentia for the torture and murder of Jean Moulin, the martyred leader of the French Resistance. Today Barbie lives as a wealthy, naturalized businessman under the name of Klaus Altmann in La Paz, Bolivia. France's request for his extradition has been ignored by the Bolivian government...
Heinrich Müller, 72, was chief of the Gestapo in the Third Reich and Adolf Eichmann's immediate superior. For years it was assumed that Müller was killed when the Red Army encircled Berlin. But in 1963 the West Berlin district attorney's office opened his supposed grave and found the bones of three different men, none of them Müller. In recent years, Müller has been reported in Brazil and Argentina, where, some investigators believe, he acts as "enforcer" among escaped SS criminals...
...Johannes Thümmler, 66, Gestapo chief of Katowice and president of the infamous Auschwitz Summary Court, has never been brought to trial because West German prosecutors declared themselves unable to assemble sufficient material from Poland to present a case. A German journalist, however, recently traveled to Poland and gathered enough material on Thümmler to write a 1-hr. 40-min. television documentary about his alleged atrocities...
...Pierre Laval. His personal behavior casts him as such in the film's context of what is ugliest about the French: their anti-Semitism. They embraced the ideology of race purity using stricter criteria than the Nuremberg laws. Newspapers blamed France's defeat on "foreign elements." Doctors used the Gestapo to rid themselves of Jewish competitors. In the cinemas films played like The Jew Suss, which warned against interbreeding. Especially distressing is a newsreel of the memorialization of France's first anti-Semitic "authority" coupled with views of a touring exhibit on how to identify Jews...
Laval's part in this tragedy is recounted by the biologist Dr. Claude Levy. The Gestapo requested a round-up of French Jews over sixteen, and in their enthusiasm the French gendarmes collected them all. The Nazis hadn't expected the children, so kept them in Paris while their parents were sent off to French concentration camps. While the bureaucracy made up its mind, Pastor Bougner appealed to Laval to evacuate the children. "It's of no importance," Laval replied. "I am practicing prophylaxis." Laval's insistence is documented by a telegram he sent. Did any of the children come...