Klaus Barbie
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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 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
Ratlines (World War II)
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The ratlines were systems of escape routes used by Nazis and their collaborators to flee Europe from 1945 onwards in the aftermath of World War II. Two primary routes developed independently with thei
Klaus Barbie
…McCloy, US High Commissioner for Germany, to hand him over for execution, but McCloy refused. Instead, the CIC helped him flee to Bolivia assisted by "ratlines" organised by US intelligence services, as well as by Croatian Roman Catholic clergy, including Krunoslav Draganović. The CIC asserted that Barbie knew…
Italian passport used by SS officer Josef Mengele to immigrate to Argentina under a false name
A travel ID issued to a Croatian national by the International Committee of the Red Cross
Pro-Nazi industrialist Petter Forsström
U-530's crew was probed about their potential complicity.