Barbie Tells Court He Is Klaus Altmann; Nazi, 73, Defiant as Trial Opens in Lyons

The Washington Post | May 12, 1987| | Copyright

Frail and gray but still defiant, Klaus Barbie refused to acknowledge his true identity today as he went on trial for crimes against humanity as a Gestapo officer in occupied Lyons during World War II.

Barbie, 73, was led in handcuffs into a heavily protected French Assizes Court to answer in person for the first time legal charges that he oversaw the execution, torture and deportation of large numbers of Jews and resistance fighters here from 1942 to 1944.

The proceedings, likely to last about six weeks, constitute what experts say will be the last major Nazi trial in France and perhaps ...

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