Dubbed the "Butcher of Lyon" for his wartime torture of prisoners, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbi fled to South America ...

Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie helped set up a top cartel in South America and worked with drug lord Pablo Escobar, according ...

Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was deeply involved in setting up one of South America's most important drug cartels, ...

Digitized recordings of conversations with protagonists of 20th century conflict will be released ahead of the 80th ...

There was Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, who came to be known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for his cruelty. There was also Kurt Lischka and Herbert Hagen, who were ...

On April 6, 1945, one month before the end of WW II, the Gestapo from Leon, under Klaus Barbie, sent two vans to the French village of Izieu. The mission was to kill the hidden children of an ...

It came to wider use after a 1983 US Department of Justice report on the flight of Klaus Barbie, the ‘Butcher of Lyon’. In 1951, Barbie was the subject of a French extradition request ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, time is running out for the criminal prosecution of aging Nazi perpetrators. Could Germany have done more? https://p.dw ...