Bestial Crimes of Klaus Barbie – Sadistic Nazi SS Officer known as the “Butcher of Lyon”. Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie was born on 25 October 1913 in Godesberg then part of the German Empire. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came into power in January 1933. In June of the same year, Barbie’s younger brother Kurt died, at the age of 18. Because Barbie’s father Nikolaus also died later that year, young Klaus could not finance his university studies.
Immediately after the German conquest and occupation of the Netherlands, Barbie arrived in Amsterdam on May 29, 1940 and until March 1942 he was employed there in the Central Office for Jewish Emigration. Barbie and his subordinates were responsible for the persecution of resistance fighters and Jews, especially those who had moved from Germany before the start of the war. Barbie was also instrumental in the persecution and torture of Freemasons in the Netherlands and personally directed attacks on lodges. On 11 October 1940, Barbie arrested Hermannus van Tongeren, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of the Netherlands which was a Masonic Grand Lodge in the Netherlands. In March 1941, van Tongeren was transported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where, in freezing conditions, he died two weeks later. On 1 April, Barbie summoned Van Tongeren’s daughter, Charlotte, to the SD headquarters and informed her that her father had died of an infection in both ears and had been cremated.
In 1942 when the Gestapo needed to pick a man to head their office in Lyon, the “Capital of the French Resistance,” Klaus Barbie with his cunning, language skills, and special zeal was a natural choice.
As the local Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie earned the nickname “the Butcher of Lyon” for his brutal actions towards Jews and members of the French Resistance.
He personally interrogated and tortured his victims from his headquarters in the notorious Hotel Terminus.
Barbie was also a sexual deviant who raped the women that he interrogated.
Erna Paris in her account of Barbie’s interrogation wrote:
“Women were always tortured naked, to the deep enjoyment of the torturers. Barbie kept two German shepherd dogs. One was trained to lunge and bite. The other was trained to mount naked women.”
After the war, Mario Blardone, who survived Barbie’s interrogation, described how he had seen Barbie try to have a young girl raped by his dog.
Barbie’s most famous victim was the hero of the French resistance, Jean Moulin, whom Barbie personally interrogated on a daily basis for three weeks.
He also tortured the children. Simone Lagrange, a soft-spoken Holocaust survivor whose family was exterminated, later recalled the arrest of her father, mother and herself on June 6, 1944. Denounced by a French neighbor as Jews, Simone and her parents were taken to Gestapo headquarters where Barbie, dressed in gray and caressing a kitten, said Simone was pretty.
“He was caressing the cat. And me, a kid 13 years old, I could not imagine that he could be evil because he loved animals. I was tortured by him for eight days.”
During the following week, Barbie hauled Simone out of a prison cell each day, yanking her by her hair, and beating and punching at her open wounds in an effort to obtain information.
Another survivor, Lise Lesevre, recalled how Klaus Barbie tortured her for nine days in 1944, beating her, and nearly drowning her in a bathtub. She told how she was hung up by hand cuffs with spikes inside them and beaten with a rubber bar. She was ordered to strip naked and get into a tub filled with freezing water. Her legs were tied to a bar across the tub and Barbie yanked a chain attached to the bar to pull her underwater. During her last interrogation, Barbie ordered her to lie flat on a chair and struck her on the back with a spiked ball attached to a chain. It broke a vertebrae, and she suffered for the rest of her life.
Another survivor, Ennat Leger, said: “Klaus Barbie had the eyes of a monster. He was a savage. My God, he was a savage! It was unimaginable. He broke my teeth, he pulled my hair back. He put a bottle in my mouth and pushed it until my lips split from the pressure.”
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Barbie was a monster who murdered many, many innocent victims. But let's not pretend that the freemasons were amongst the innocent. Freemasons are a highly dangerous group of people, corrupt to the core that spread their poison and corruption wherever they exist. It is amazing that they are allowed to exist in modern, democratic society
Can't believe Margot Robbie is playing him.
He got away with it, lived a life of Riley, and then the punishment was all to little to late. that is, unless there's an Hell awaiting him.
More white on white crime 😂
Iadul unde este mai fierbinte acolo să fie chinuit Klaus Barbie!Numai pentru chinurile la care la supus pe Jean Moulin și pe alți oameni, când mă gândesc și mă simt îngrozită și plină de ură la adresa acestui monstru!
That clown got off easy
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I've been to the Gestapo HQ in Lyon, now The Museum of The French Resistance. There is a film about the Barbie trial, which includes some of the same testimony recounted in this video. Bottom line is that it's too bad he wasn't strung up with piano wire.
Anyone else first hear of the butcher of lyon in the movie Rat Race?
What an evil, horrible monster.
What a horrible shame, dirty sick pig will have a higher power to answer to.
Huge mistake for US to provide cover and hire Barbie. Should have been tried and brought to the gallows. Truly another evil Nazi.
He got off easy. Should have been broken on the wheel.
This Nazi should have gotten invited to a neck tie party. He was one of worse there was.
Barbie knew he was a bastard (in more ways than one) but he was proud of it. I guess his maltreatment by his father made him into the animal that he was.
Finally a video about the butcher of Lyon. He was a despicable detestable man. He bounced around in different countries. Klaus Barbie couldn’t escape forever. The people who never gave up finding him are the real heroes.
He’s such a dark figure. What’s a challenge is finding content on him or history of his horrid life. I remember hearing about him from the lawyer that represented him. Jacques Vergès had a rogue’s gallery of clients. Hey, if they pay they’re “innocent wrongfully accused” clients lol
Good to be treated like that
french and british maligned the whole world with their imperialistic colonialism I say the Nazis were their reward
I usually can keep my composure when hearing these stories, but damn, I can't see thru my tears. God in Heaven, please tell me there is an extra special place in Hell for this evil.
I doubt he was judged innocent before God's Holy Throne. May he suffer for his crimes in the deepest and hottest bowels of hell.
Barbie should have been given the same treatment from his dogs that he gave those young women!
The dumb looking nazi as he said before God judging him innocent. God didn't know who he was because his heart was full of hatred thus guilty of murder. His soul is now is at un- peaceful rest tormented by the fallen ones as he looks up at the children he murdered he's mouth dry painfully thirsty as the demons drive his soul back to the everlasting lake of fire in the depths of hell till the end of the earth then his second death of his soul.
he shot people in neck or back of the head so they would fall a certain way down the stairs
Excellent document with an excellent presenter.
Clear voice.
That’s one sick man n psychopath.
I remember the Klaus Barbie trial and that he had escaped to Bolivia after the war where he lived like most Nazis, under Gov't protection. What I did NOT know until just now was that he was under AMERICAN protection after the war. And that my friend pisses me off mightily. There is no way his cancerous death made up for the suffering he caused so many people and to have been allowed to go unpunished for so many years leaves a burning in my stomach that I can't stand. IDK how anyone could justify making that decision.
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The 25th of October seems the birth date of some very unpleasant people, no offence intended to those who are not so. The is a close association with people born on or near that date who have records of infamy for one reason or another whether it is serial killer or something equally horrible. I was just noting an interesting fact.
And yet, plenty of idiots still believe in karma
Hi from France! There is a big stone with the names of these poor children and their caretakers in a a beautiful place called Place Carnot in Lyon.
HellYaTho
"He loved animals" because he was caressing the kitten. Wouldn't be surprised if he raped his pets too. The deviant behaviors knows no bounds.
Sick and sexually depraved beast.
Well, I suppose that his Nazi indoctrination was successful, as he displayed no regard for humanity right to the end of his life. The French Court was quite decent in not sending him directly to the gallows.
Since he was convicted before the abolition of the death penalty in France, he should have been guillotined!
I wonder if Kurt Dussander from Stephen King's Apt Pupil was based on him.
I remember when Barbie was found and arrested. What a horror show of a human being. I’m glad that he was finally put away.
I didn’t know that the US was complicit in letting him go until I saw this video. I’m American, and not naive; I know my government has done a lot of horrible things, WWII included. So, I’m not surprised. Just…disappointed.
Again no justice! You'd think France would have had him executed immediately but the fools let him get away so
lightly!!!
Another truly good video! Thank you very much! I have heard about Klaus Barbie; a decade ago or something I saw a documentary about his daugher: she and another old lady (a holocaust survivor or a child of…) were giving lectures together in different colleges. I found this very beautiful. A unique combination.
How anyone can hate a people so much to destroy human life on such a grand scale, is mind boggling.
It is not fronz its France! Jeez
I remember his arrest & trial. What a pity that he and so many others were not punished more severely.