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 p
Barbie as an SS-Obersturmführer
Barbie's Bolivian secret police ID card, named as "Klaus Altmann Hansen"
Caricature of Vergès and Klaus Barbie during the trial, by Calvi
Jean Pierre Moulin was a French civil servant and hero of the French Resistance who succeeded in unifying the main networks of the Resistance in World War II. He served as the first President of the N
Klaus Barbie
…fighters, personally participating in roundups such as the Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup, which saw 84 people arrested in a single day. He arrested Jean Moulin, a high-ranking member of the French Resistance and his most prominent captive. He personally tortured him to death. In 1943, he was awarded the Iron…
Birthplace of Jean Moulin in Béziers.
House where Moulin was tortured in La Taye, Saint-Georges-sur-Eure in the Eure-et-Loire department.
Plaque commemorating the creation of the United Resistance Movement (MUR is French acronym) in the town of Miribel in January 1943.