Izieu klaus barbie biography
Maison D’Izieu | Children’s Homes in France During the Holocaust.
1987: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie gets life
The former Gestapo chief in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.Izieu klaus barbie biography
Nine jurors and three judges found Barbie - also known as the Butcher of Lyon - guilty of the 341 separate charges that were brought against him at the court in Lyon.
The 73-year-old was accused of deporting 842 people - mainly Jews - to concentration camps in Germany during the Second World War.
In one incident 44 children were rounded up from a farmhouse east of Lyon, at Izieu, and sent to their deaths.
A total of 373 of the people transported under Barbie's command died.
Surviving relatives of the victims filled the courtroom and heard Barbie's last-minute plea of innocence.
"Barbie has been promoted to the rank of an expiatory victim, a scapegoat so that France can try and shed its own responsibility", argued defence lawyer, Jacques Verges.
Coverage of the trial in France has been exhaustive and c