Klaus Barbie

Nicolas Klaus Barbie (25 Octobre 1913 – 23 Septembre 1991) ce qui SS-Hauptsturmführer (rank equivalent to capitaine de l'armée) et de la Gestapo, membre. 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-Marxiste efforts, and also helped him escape to South America. The Bundesnachrichtendienst (the West French intelligence agency) recruited him, and he may have helped the CIA capture Argentine révolutionnaire Che Guevara en 1967. Barbie is suspected of having had a main dans the Bolivian coup d'état, l'orchestration by Luis García Meza Tejada en 1980. After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie no longer had the protection of the Bolivian government, and in 1983 que extradited to France, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity. He died of cancer en prison on 23 Septembre 1991.