Bringing Nazi Leader Klaus Barbie To Justice
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In February 1983 the man known as 'the butcher of Lyon' was extradited to France to face charges of murder and torture during World War Two. The former head of the Gestapo in Lyon was traced to South America by two Nazi-hunters, married couple Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. They have been telling their amazing story to Mike Lanchin.
Photo: Klaus Barbie on his way to court in Lyon, France (AFP)
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| 0:24.9 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds hello and welcome to the |
| 0:31.0 | witness podcast history told by the people who were there. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Mike Lanchin. |
| 0:36.3 | And today we're going back to February of 1983 when the former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie was extradited to France to stand trial for crimes committed during |
| 0:46.7 | World War II. I've been hearing from the two Nazi hunters who tracked him down in hiding |
| 0:52.3 | in South America. |
| 0:54.0 | Nazi war criminal, Klaus Barbi, will be landing back in France in a few minutes |
| 0:59.0 | more than 30 years after fleeing to South America to escape prosecution. |
| 1:03.0 | A French military plane has flown Barbi on the last leg of his journey from Bolivia, |
| 1:08.0 | his haven since 1945 to Lyon, seen of his wartime atrocities. |
| 1:13.4 | We say, hooof, because you know, it's terrible to live during 12 years with a case and an important case symbolically. |
| 1:25.0 | Serge Clasfeld is a Jewish lawyer whose father had died in the Auschwitz death camp. |
| 1:30.0 | He and his wife Beata, a German Christian, had been on the trail of Klaus-Barby since the early 1970s. |
| 1:38.0 | Now at last they were about to see one of the most wanted Nazi leaders still alive arrived back in France. |
| 1:44.4 | Barbie was accused of having rounded up thousands of French Jews when head of the Gestapo |
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