Word: klarsfelds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Serge Klarsfeld, a French Jewish lawyer who as a youngster hid in a closet listening to the Gestapo torture the neighbor's children, argues that sending innocent people to ovens is no common crime...
Government prosecutors, helped by Klarsfeld and others on behalf of victims, seek to disprove Barbie's assertion that he acted only against members of the French Resistance. He denies deporting Jews...
Until the early 1980s, after Klarsfeld led an energetic campaign, hardly any French textbook even mentioned the Vichy government's treatment of Jews or its role in the deportations...
...Barbie justify what was done to the children of Izieu? Here, the proofs of his crimes are beyond dispute: the Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the best known of his pursuers, have turned up a striking document: "This morning, the Jewish children's home, 'Children's Colony,' at Izieu has been removed. 41 children in all, aged 3 to 13, have been captured. Beyond that, the arrest of all the Jewish personnel has taken place, namely 10 individuals, among them 5 women. It was not possible to secure any money or other valuables. Transportation to Drancy will take place...
This trial represents an extraordinary victory for Beate Klarsfeld, who, as it happens, was born and raised in Germany. A victory over the forgetfulness, the willingness to compromise, the indifference that an overly politicized world has shown for too long toward escaped SS killers. A victory too over the governments that helped Barbie. It was the Klarsfelds who picked up his trail -- he had disappeared for almost 40 years into the identity of a prosperous and peaceful businessman named Klaus Altmann living in Bolivia. They were the ones who managed to persuade Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government...