Nazi.
Born in Bad Godesberg, near Bonn. Educated at the Friedrich-Wilhelm Institute. Joined the SS in 1934 straight from university. He became member of the NSDAP in 1937.
In 1941, Barbie was posted to the Bureau of Jewish Affairs and sent to Amsterdam and in May 1942 to Lyon?, where he earned the sobriquet "Butcher of Lyon" as head of the local Gestapo. He was accused of a number of individual acts including the capture and deportation of forty-four Jewish children hidden in the village of Izieu?, and torturing to death of [Jean Moulin]?, the highest ranking member of the French Resistance ever captured. All told the deportation of 7,500 people, 4,342 murders and the arrest and torture of 14,311 resistance fighters were in some way attributed to his actions or commands.
Between 1945-1955 he was protected and employed by British and then American intelligence agents because of his "police skills". In 1955 Barbie, together with his wife and children, escaped to Bolivia. He lived in [La Paz]? under the alias Klaus Altmann. He was identified in Bolivia in 1971 but it was only in 1983 that a new moderate government deported him to France. In July 1987, he was tried in Lyon and sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Barbie died in prison in 1991 of cancer.
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