People
Klaus Barbie
Biography:
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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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Mein Name sei Altmann as Self | 2015-09-08 |
Klaus Barbie, sur les traces d'un criminel nazi as Klaus Barbie | 2012-01-10 |
My Enemy's Enemy as Himself | 2007-08-31 |
Terror's Advocate as Self (archive footage) | 2007-06-06 |
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie as Self | 1988-11-01 |