Butcher of Paris, The

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Now French authorities have released for the first time the police records which led to Dr Petiot being guillotined, aged 49, in May 1946.

However, the most telling piece of evidence in regards to our original, 14th century demon barber, comes in the form of a folksong. It was originally written in 1387 (the exact year that the barber and butcher were said to be executed.) The Gestapo eventually learned about this "route" for the escape of wanted persons, which they assumed was part of the Resistance. Gestapo agent Robert Jodkum forced prisoner Yvan Dreyfus to approach the supposed network, but Dreyfus simply vanished. A later informer successfully infiltrated the operation, and the Gestapo arrested Fourrier, Pintard and Nézondet. During torture, they confessed that "Dr. Eugène" was Marcel Petiot.Nikolaus Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German officer of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the " Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon. After the war, United States intelligence services employed him for his anti-communist efforts and aided his escape to Bolivia, where he advised the dictatorial regime on how to repress opposition through torture. In 1983, the United States apologised to France for the U.S. Counterintelligence Corps helping him escape to Bolivia, [2] aiding Barbie's escape from an outstanding arrest warrant. [3] It is the year 1384 and Paris is only a small village compared to what it will become. If you were not a noble, you were one of the thousands of peasants or small store keepers who populated the city. In 1984, Barbie was indicted for crimes committed as Gestapo chief in Lyon between 1942 and 1944, chief among which was the Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup. The jury trial started on 11 May 1987 in Lyon before the Rhône Cour d'Assises. Unusually, the court allowed the trial to be filmed because of its historical value. A special courtroom was constructed with seating for an audience of about 700. [46] The head prosecutor was Pierre Truche. Barbie's role in Hitler's Final Solution was the issue. [47] This story is more of the detective, whose character could make an huge impact but failed due to...again the writer tbh *pffttt* One witness at the trial was Michel Thomas, a Polish polyglot Jew, who had narrowly escaped arrest by Barbie in Lyon during WWII. An account may be found in his biography, Test of Courage. [53] Personal life [ edit ]

Known for his ruthless cruelty, Barbie personally interrogated and tortured his victims from his headquarters in the notorious Hotel Terminus. His most famous victim was the hero of the French resistance, Jean Moulin, whom Barbie personally interrogated on a daily basis for three weeks. Moulin refused to divulge any intelligence to his captors, and died from the effects of his torture near Metz on July 8, 1943, on his way to captivity in Germany. Izieu Children's Home

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Petiot later claimed that during the period of German occupation, he was engaged in Resistance activities. He supposedly developed secret weapons that killed Germans without leaving forensic evidence, planted booby traps all over Paris, had high-level meetings with Allied commanders, and worked with a (nonexistent) group of Spanish anti-fascists. The French discovered that Barbie was in U.S. hands; having sentenced him to death in absentia for war crimes, they made a plea to John J. McCloy, US High Commissioner for Germany, to hand him over for execution, but McCloy refused. [18] Instead, the CIC helped him flee to Bolivia assisted by " ratlines" organised by US intelligence services, [20] as well as by Croatian Roman Catholic clergy, including Krunoslav Draganović. The CIC asserted that Barbie knew too much about the network of German spies the CIC had planted in various European communist organisations. It was suspicious of communist influence within the Government of France, but their protection of Barbie may have been as much to avoid the embarrassment of having recruited him in the first place. [16] Other authors have suggested that the anticommunist element of Italian fascism and the protection of the Vatican allowed Klaus Barbie and other Nazis to flee to Bolivia. [21] As police uncovered his house of horrors at 12 rue La Sueur, in the chic 16th Arrondissement, Petiot went on the run. The court rejected the defence's argument. On 4 July 1987, Barbie was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Four years later, he died in prison in Lyon of leukemia and spine and prostate cancer at the age of 77. [54] Bower, Tom (1984). Klaus Barbie: The Butcher of Lyons. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-53359-9.

As the legend goes, between the years of 1384 and 1387, the butcher of rue des Marmousets was one of the most well known butchers in all of France. Out of all of his meats, it was his pâtés and meat pies that, shall we say, “cried out” and captured the attention of the French public. Mark B. Feldman, Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection p. 59, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Feldman.Mark.pdf United Press International (UPI) (16 August 1983). "US Sends Apology To France On Barbie". The Pittsburgh Press. p.A12 . Retrieved 27 November 2015. Police later took away “33 pounds of charred bones, 11 pounds of human hair, including more than 10 whole scalps, and three dustbins full of pieces too small to identify”. Ryan, Allan A. Jr. (2 August 1983). Klaus Barbie and the United States Government: A Report to the Attorney General (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Justice and the United States Government Printing Office . Retrieved 27 November 2014.You'll see a mix of tourists and locals wandering the narrow aisles, taking in the bright colors and heavy aromas. Each stall is independently run.

After seven months on the run, he was caught in a Metro station in October 1944. He was charged with 135 crimes, including 26 counts of murder. The story is based on nobody's perspective which adds a major flaw. Unlike, From hell where Alan Moore has written 95% of the incidents from the antagonist's point of view. Hilberg, Raul (1982). "Barbie (SS, Lyon)". Die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden (in German) (110ed.). Olle & Wolter. p.453. ISBN 978-3-88395-431-8. OCLC 10125090. Case No. 77, Fn 908 KsD Lyon IV-B (gez. Ostubaf. Barbie) an BdS, Paris IV-B, 6 April 1944, RF-1235. As chief of Nazi Germany’s secret police in Lyon, Barbie sent 7,500 French Jews and French Resistance partisans to concentration camps, and executed some 4,000 others. Among other atrocities, Barbie personally tortured and executed many of his prisoners. In 1943, he captured Jean Moulin, the leader of the French Resistance, and had him slowly beaten to death. In 1944, Barbie rounded up 44 young Jewish children and their seven teachers hiding in a boarding house in Izieu and deported them to the Auschwitz extermination camp. Of the 51, only one teacher survived. In August 1944, as the Germans prepared to retreat from Lyon, he organized one last deportation train that took hundreds of people to the death camps. Barbie emigrated to Bolivia in 1951, [23] where he lived well for 30 years in Cochabamba, under the alias Klaus Altmann. It was easier and less embarrassing for him to find employment there than in Europe; he enjoyed excellent relations with high-ranking Bolivian officials, including Bolivian dictators Hugo Banzer and Luis García Meza. "Altmann" was known for his German nationalist and anti-communist stances. [24] While engaged in arms-trade operations in Bolivia, he was appointed to the rank of lieutenant colonel within the Bolivian Armed Forces. [25]

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King, David (2011). Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris. Crown. ISBN 978-0-307-45289-4. Note: this was a raid on an orphanage in the previously Italian-occupied part of Southeast France. In the last days before the Nazi withdrawal, all of the children and staff were arrested and either shot or sent to Auschwitz to be gassed. Another of Barbie’s most infamous crimes was the deportation of youngsters from a children’s home in Izieu in southern France. Their would-be rescuers, Sabine and Miron Zlatin, had hidden the children in a remote farm house in the Rhone Valley. The children ranged in age from 4 to 17. Their Jewish identities were a closely guarded secret, and in official records the young persons were identified only as refugees. On the morning of April 6, 1944, Barbie led a raid on the children’s colony, capturing 44 children and seven adult caretakers. Fearing that local authorities might intervene, Barbie arranged for their immediate transfer to Drancy transit camp. Miron Zlatin and two of the oldest youngsters were ultimately sent to Tallinn, Estonia, where they were shot to death. The rest of the children were deported to Auschwitz, where they were gassed immediately upon arrival. Postwar and Escape Diehl, Jörg (2 July 2007). "Ich bin gekommen, um zu töten". Der Spiegel (in German) . Retrieved 22 January 2011.