Klaus Barbie

Born

October 25, 1913

Died

September 25, 1991 (aged 77)

Known as

military officer, war criminal, torturer, Gestapo employee, laborer

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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