Actor

Klaus Barbie

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Movies: 6Series: 2

TMDB ID: 226359

IMDb ID: nm0053597

Known for: Acting

Born: October 25, 1913

Died: September 23, 1991

Age: 77

Place of birth: Bad Godesberg, Deutschland

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1988 - 2025

Years active: 38

Average TMDB rating: 6.75

Wikidata: Q77088

Also known as

Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie • Klaus Altmann • le Boucher de Lyon • The Butcher of Lyon • O Carniceiro de Lyon

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie (25 October 1913 – 23 September 1991) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer (rank equivalent to army captain) and Gestapo member. He was known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured French prisoners of the Gestapo while stationed in Lyon, France. After the war, United States intelligence services employed him for their anti-Marxist efforts, and also helped him escape to South America. The Bundesnachrichtendienst (the West German intelligence agency) recruited him, and he may have helped the CIA capture Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara in 1967. Barbie is suspected of having had a hand in the Bolivian coup d'état orchestrated by Luis García Meza Tejada in 1980. After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie no longer had the protection of the Bolivian government, and in 1983 was extradited to France, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity. He died of cancer in prison on 23 September 1991.

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