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Adolf Hitler boasted that the zeal of French collaborators spared him scarce manpower. Nazi records show 2200 German Gestapo agents were sent to France. Local police helped deport 79,000 Jews...
...brutal German roundup of partisans in the Kozara region of Yugoslavia in the summer of 1942. More than 60,000 people were sent to concentration camps during the campaign, and thousands died in the process. Investigators also believe that Waldheim participated in the deportation of Greek Jews to Nazi death camps in 1944 and helped turn over Allied prisoners to the German...
...Butcher of Lyons," who eluded his postwar pursuers for almost 40 years with help from the U. S. and other governments, goes on trial next week for crimes against humanity. Will Klaus Barbie, seized by Nazi- hunters in Bolivia and extradited to France, now name those who assisted him in escaping justice and force a judgment day for nations as well as individuals...
Barbie, who grew up in Trier, a small town in Germany, and dreamed of becoming a minister, first arrived in Lyons at the age of 28. He was assigned the task of fighting the Resistance and getting rid of the Jews. The young, dedicated Nazi excelled at his job. He is accused of having executed 4,000 people and deported 7,500 Jews. His career grew so bloodstained that he was dubbed the "Butcher of Lyons." Yet only a fragment of that past will be weighed in the deliberations: the accusation is primarily concerned with the 44 Jewish children...
...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...