Klaus Barbie
German SS officer, head of the Gestapo in Lyon and convicted war criminal (1913–1991)
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Nazi Gestapo chief in Lyon during WWII, earned the "Butcher of Lyon" moniker for torturing prisoners. Spent decades evading justice before extradition and trial in France.
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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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