Klaus Barbie, German SS captain (died 1991)

Klaus Barbie

Nazi German Gestapo leader (1913–1991)

Nikolaus Barbie was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of…