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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...
...Bossert story raised almost as many questions as it answered. "Why would anyone keep such incriminating letters or identity papers?" asked French Nazi Hunter Serge Klarsfeld, referring to the documents found in the home of the Bosserts as well as in Sedlmeier's. Why had the Mengele family not announced Josef's death six years ago, and so freed itself of all the negative publicity thrown up by the case? What about the many sightings over the years of Mengele in Paraguay, even as recently as last summer? And why had the Bosserts taken up with an infamous mass murderer...
Barbie's arrest was particularly gratifying to Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, a French lawyer and his German-born wife who have specialized in tracking down Nazi criminals. When a Munich court tried to close the Barbie case in 1971, Beate Klarsfeld launched an international protest campaign that eventually turned up information on the missing SS man's whereabouts in Latin America. Largely on the basis of new evidence from the 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...