Barbie Faces Nazi War Crimes Charges
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Crime, Law, Legal History, Courts
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, World War II, Trials, Judges, Lawyers, Holocaust
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History, French History
- Geographical Location: France
- Date: February 24, 1983
Article abstract: Klaus Barbie faces Nazi war crimes charges and is prosecuted by the French government, affirming the legacy of the Nuremberg trials and the importance of collective memory about the Holocaust.
Summary of Event
On January 29, 1983, more than a decade after the Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld first located him in La Paz, Bolivia, a business man named Klaus Altmann was arrested on suspicion of being the war criminal Klaus Barbie. Between November, 1942, and August, 1944, Barbie, a second lieutenant in the SS (Schutzstaffel or...
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