Klaus Barbie
Niklaus Barbie was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon.
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- Bad Godesberg
- Awards
- 🏆 Iron Cross🏆 War Merit Cross
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Trending topics shown first"After 19 days of interrogation, they put me in a cell. They would carry by the bodies of tortured people. With the point of a boot, Barbie would turn their heads to look at their faces, and if he saw …"
"Perhaps you think that any fool could become a member of the SS. Do you really know what an SS soldier is? He is a superman. He is a professional chosen personally by Hitler. A soldier whose anteceden…"
"There is only one certainty in life... A strong man stands above and conquers all!"
"If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one."
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1913
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