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person_profile-Klaus Barbie

Klaus Barbie Died at age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Klaus Barbie

Date of Birth:

Oct 25, 1913

Country of birth:

Deutschland

Died:

Sep 23, 1991

Biography of

Klaus Barbie

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie (25 October 1913 – 23 September 1991) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer (rank equivalent to army captain) and Gestapo member. He was known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured French prisoners of the Gestapo while stationed in Lyon, France. After the war, United States intelligence services employed him for their anti-Marxist efforts, and also helped him escape to South America. The Bundesnachrichtendienst (the West German intelligence agency) recruited him, and he may have helped the CIA capture Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara in 1967. Barbie is suspected of having had a hand in the Bolivian coup d'état orchestrated by Luis García Meza Tejada in 1980. After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie no longer had the protection of the Bolivian government, and in 1983 was extradited to France, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity. He died of cancer in prison on 23 September 1991.

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Klaus Barbie

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Filmography of

Klaus Barbie

Found 3 Movies in total

My Enemy's Enemy

Himself ( Actor )

... 2007

... 2007

... 1988