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Klaus Barbie 1913-91, Nazi war criminal known as the "Butcher of Lyons." As Gestapo chief in Lyons, France (1942-44), he was responsible for the deaths of French Resistance members and thousands of Jews. After the war he secretly served as a U.S. army agent in Germany. In 1951 he fled Europe for Bolivia with U.S. help. Identified by Nazi-hunters in the early 1970s, he was expelled from Bolivia in 1983 after a civilian government came to power. He was tried in France, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Barbie, Klaus (1913–91) Nazi chief of the German Gestapo in France during World War II. He was known as the ‘Butcher of Lyon’ for his persecution and murder of French Resistance fighters and Jews. Barbie sent thousands of people to Auschwitz. After the war, he worked for US counter-intelligence before escaping to Bolivia in 1951. He was captured in 1987, brought to Lyon, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Barbie, Klaus (1913–91),SS Hauptsturmführer (captain) who as the head of the Gestapo in Lyons from November 1942 to August 1944, tortured and murdered Jews and members of the French Resistance (see Moulin). Though wanted as a war criminal he was employed by the US Counter Intelligence Corps in February 1947 which protected him from the French and then helped him reach Bolivia. He was extradited to France in 1983, found guilty of war crimes, and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987. At the time of his trial the US government expressed ‘its deep regrets’ about Barbie's concealment, but it has been denied that the relevant authorities were, at the time, aware of the extent of his crimes.

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