Klaus Barbie

Nicolás "Klaus" Barbie (25 de Octubre de 1913 – 23 de Septiembre de 1991) por lo que en el SS-Hauptsturmführer (rank equivalent to capitán del ejército) y miembro de la Gestapo. He was known as the "Carnicero de Lyon" for having personally torturado espíritus de la tierra French prisoners of the Gestapo while stationed en Lyon, Francia. After the war, United States servicios de inteligencia de employed him for their anti-Marxista efforts, and also ayudado him escape to South America. The servicio federal (the West German intelligence agency) recruited him, and he may have ayudado the CIA captura Argentine revolucionario Che Guevara en 1967. Barbie is suspected of having had a mano en the Bolivian coup d'état orchestrated by Luis García Meza Tejada, en 1980. After the fall of the dictadora, Barbie no longer had the protection of the Bolivian de gobierno, y en 1983, por lo que extradited to France, where he lo convicted of crimes against humanity. He died of cancer en prison on 23 de Septiembre de 1991.