Nearly 80 years after a traitor at the heart of the French Resistance betrayed comrades and Jewish children to the notorious Nazi butcher Klaus Barbie, locals refuse to open old wounds. As a former ...
He gave his name as Klaus Altmann, but his real name was Klaus Barbie, also known as the “Butcher of Lyon”. A sadist who had delighted in torture and murder while serving as an SS officer in World War ...
The trial of Klaus Barbie, which begins this week in Lyon, is accompanied by apprehensions and expectations equally overrated. Barbie is not up to the morality play that has been mounted about him, ...
On the Fourth of July, it was 30 years since a French court convicted Nazi Klaus Barbie of crimes against humanity committed in France during World War II. On July 4, 1987, after an eight-week trial, ...
Raymond Aubrac, 97, is France's last survivor from the senior ranks of the wartime Resistance. He tells Hugh Schofield the story of how he first met the Resistance leader Jean Moulin. In 1942 Moulin ...
La Paz, Jan 5 (EFE).La Paz, Jan 5 (EFE). — In the twilight of his life at a French prison, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie felt at peace with his conscience, missed visiting the tombs of his wife and ...