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Title: Klaus Barbie pre-trial records
Date (inclusive): 1943-1985
Collection Number: 95008
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution Archives
Physical Description:
8 manuscript boxes
(3.2 linear feet)
Abstract: Trial instruction, including depositions and exhibits, in the case of Klaus Barbie before the Tribunal de grande instance
de Lyon, relating to German war crimes in France during World War II. Photocopy.
Creator:
Barbie, Klaus, 1913- , defendant.
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[Identification of item], Klaus Barbie pre-trial records, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Originals in: Tribunal de grande instance, Lyon, France.
Born to a Roman Catholic family in Bad Godesberg, Germany, Klaus Barbie joined the SS (Schutzstaffel) in September 1935. By
1940, he was posted to Holland where his main task was to arrest Jews and German émigrés. In 1942, Barbie arrived in recently
captured Lyon as head of the Gestapo, commanding a force of 25 officers. There, Barbie prevented sabotage and persecuted Jews,
for which he was presented the military award, "First Class Iron Cross with Swords," by Adolf Hitler. After the war Barbie
escaped prosecution in France and relocated to Bolivia in 1950. He lived in Bolivia as a businessman until 1983, when the
Bolivian government extradited Barbie to France to stand trial for war crimes. In 1987 Klaus Barbie was sentenced to life
imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Nine jurors and three judges found Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyon," guilty
of the 341 separate charges that were brought against him at the court in Lyon. While in prison Klause Barbie died of cancer
in 1991.
Scope and Content of Collection
The trial records for the head of the Gestapo in Lyon include trial instruction, depositions, and exhibits in the case of
Klaus Barbie before the Tribunal de grande instance in Lyon, relating to German war crimes in France during World War II.
Photocopy.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
France. Tribunal de grande instance de Lyon.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
War crime trials--France.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.