Klaus Barbie

It's the story of...

Do you remember the Nazi Klaus Barbie who was found in Bolivia, found in the 70s, extradited to France in the 80s? So it is the story.

It is his story.

And I'm telling that in a graphic novel form.

Toward this end, the CIC collaborated closely with General Reinhard Gehlen, former head of the Foreign Army's East, founded in 1938 and responsible for collecting intelligence on the Soviet Union.

But the Corps also recruited personnel whose resumes erred on the criminal side, such as SS officer Klaus Barbie, charmingly known as the Butcher of Lyon.

Barbie the Butcher and other war criminals were eventually protected from prosecution and smuggled out of Europe with the complicity of the CIC, OSS, and other Allied services.

many many more former nazi and ss officials would escape via rat lines set up by argentinian intelligence and even the vatican the us joint chief of staffs however were not interested in simply knowing more about the soviets they were interested in gaining a technological edge over them As early as July 1945, they explicitly authorized a program to exploit chosen rare mines whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use.

Because it was up in a... high rise building, uh, W NYU was.

And I remember we're signing in where these knucklehead kids signing in the book, you know, for security and, and Alex, Alex is signing Klaus Barbie.

And then like someone like we all just like, no one checked, no one checked our IDs or anything like that.

We're just signing stupid names.

He was sent by de Gaulle to unite the different resistance movements fighting against the Nazi occupation.

And in June '43, he was arrested near Lyon and interrogated by Klaus Barbie, the head of the local Gestapo.

And the film focuses on Moulin's final days in captivity, turning this confrontation into a psychological battle between the two men.

And Niemes had already explored the horrors of the Holocaust in Son of Saul, and here he approaches history through a very intimate and suffocating perspective once again.

Jumping into France to resist Nazi Germany.

Dining with the Klaus Barbie, gaining knowledge for your friends.

Betrayed the second time in country, the Gestapo promising unconscionable.

We'll be right back.

Um, and then shortly thereafter I got selected for, uh, the Marine Security Guard Battalion, which is, uh, known as embassy duty, and I served in US embassies in Bucharest, Romania, uh, Guatemala City, Guatemala, La Paz, Bolivia, and Lisbon, Portugal.

Um, my claim to fame on embassy duty was the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, better known as the Butcher of Lyon, came to the embassy in La Paz while I was working the front, uh, desk, better known as Post One, and he came up and asked for political asylum.

Um, it was denied, uh, and off he went out of the embassy sh- uh, only to be picked up shortly thereafter by French intelligence, flown back to France where he was put on trial, convicted, and he dro- he died an unrepentant Nazi in prison.

Uh, I think he passed away of leukemia.

So let's just get into it right away.

Where we left off, Klaus Barbie, who worked for the Nazis, was trying incredibly hard to track down Virginia Hall, screaming, I'd give anything to get my hands on that limping Canadian bitch, even though she was not, in fact, Canadian.

Wanted posters went up of Virginia with the caption below her depiction, the enemy's most dangerous spy.

We must find and destroy her.

In the winter of 1942 to 1943, Alesh's double identity would finally be found out.

But I'll talk more on Alesh as we go.

Do you remember Klaus Barbie? Let's talk about him a little bit more.

In late February 1943, Barbie had arrived in Lyon.

The IMT subsequently convicted three of the groups, the Nazi leadership cause, the SS, including the SD, and the Gestapo.

In the years following the Second World War, US counterintelligence cause implored the former Leon Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, for his anti-communist efforts, and also helped him to escape to Bolivia.

In 1997, Cologne transformed the former regional Gestapo headquarters in Cologne, the ELDE House, into a museum to document the actions of the Gestapo.

We live in a world where dictatorships are still very much in operation.

So in other words, you admit that maybe there's no substantia- substantial f- proof that you have.

There's no corroboration." And then he said, "Well, you know, Klaus Barbie, Klaus Barbie, uh, did it in the Nazi period." Well, now we're down to just one person, and he only has one example, and when you look at all of the information about Klaus Barbie, you don't find anything.

Biologically, everyone, the issue that many people brought up, and many people with vast experience in dog training and dog physiology, canine physiology, have concluded that if you take Fido and you say, "Fido," and I'll be very careful 'cause we have a family audience, but if you say, "Fido, see that human being over there? I want you to approach that human being and to physiol- physiologically be able to commit violent coitus with that, on that person on command." And that's not the way that dogs work.

They're not like humans.