Petiot had taken warped advantage of the horrors of war to unleash his own murderous reign of terror. One witness at the trial was Michel Thomas, a Polish polyglot Jew, who had narrowly escaped arrest by Barbie in Lyon during WWII. An account may be found in his biography, Test of Courage. [53] Personal life [ edit ] By the time the French government requested extradition of Barbie from American officials in 1949, it was public knowledge that Barbie was living freely in the American zone under a false identity. As the French demands for extradition escalated, the CIC decided it was too risky to continue using Barbie as an informant. However, the CIC was not willing to hand Barbie to the French, fearing that Barbie knew too much about CIC intelligence operations. In 1951, the CIC helped Barbie escape to South America with his family via the American “Rat Line” that smuggled escaped Nazis and other Axis fugitives out of postwar Europe. Life and Recognition in South America The 1988 American documentary film Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, directed by the German-French director Marcel Ophuls, details Barbie's life between childhood and the trial near the end of his life. The film received the Academy Award for Best Documentary. As police uncovered his house of horrors at 12 rue La Sueur, in the chic 16th Arrondissement, Petiot went on the run.

Theroux, Paul (1995). The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean. New York: Fawcett Columbine. p.207. ISBN 0449910857. Butcher of Paris feels right. Balanced - researched, descriptive but still working as a story and not lost or boring. It has its flaws, but the art is good, the story works and you got some new knowledge from history. Interview mit Peter Hammerschmidt zum Thema Klaus Barbie" (PDF). 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2011. This story is more of the detective, whose character could make an huge impact but failed due to...again the writer tbh *pffttt* After the German conquest and occupation of the Netherlands, Barbie was assigned to Amsterdam. He had been pre-assigned to Adolf Eichmann's Amt (Department) IV/B-4. This department was responsible for identification, roundup and deportation of Dutch Communists, Jews and Freemasons. On 11 October 1940, Barbie arrested Hermannus van Tongeren [ nl], Grand Master of the Grand Orient of the Netherlands. In March 1941, van Tongeren was transported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where, in freezing conditions, he died two weeks later. On 1 April, Barbie summoned Van Tongeren's daughter, Charlotte, to SD headquarters and informed her that her father had died of an infection in both ears and had been cremated. [7]a b c d Strothmann, Dietrich (5 November 1982). "Der Fall Klaus Barbie: Den Diktatoren stets zu Diensten". Die Zeit. ISSN 0044-2070 . Retrieved 16 January 2020. Detective Massu and his son Bernard investigate the killings. Meanwhile the Nazis are pushed out of Paris and Jodkum is killed, but not before lying about Massu being a Nazi collaborator. Massu is arrested. So is Petiot, out of the blue. Oh, it's because Massu found him. Well, why didn't you say so? Sparing the Butcher's Life". Time. 5 May 1958. Archived from the original on December 26, 2009 . Retrieved 17 September 2011.

Beattie, John (1984). The Life and Career of Klaus Barbie: An Eyewitness Record. Methuen. pp.5–7. ISBN 978-0-413-54170-3. The US Department of Justice report to the US Senate in 1983 opens with the summary paragraph: [19] While there are scenes of a gruesome and horrific nature in this work the story mostly revolves around the detectives investigations of the murder and the Gestapo’s attempts to uncover the murderers smuggling operation for getting Jews out of France. This was actually a front to allow the killer opportunity to find victims, take their money and murder them. While definitely not for younger readers this is not a wall-to-wall bloodbath. That said what violence there is is sometimes very graphic and intense and could be disturbing to some readers. Arrested by American military police in Tyrol in July 1945, Oberg was sentenced to death by two different courts: British and French before being handed over to the French. In 1958 his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and later reduced to 20 years at hard labour. Oberg was eventually released on 28 November 1962 and pardoned by President Charles de Gaulle. He died in West Germany on 3 June 1965.

Newton, Michael. "Dr. Marcel Petiot". Crime Library: Serial Killers. Archived from the original on 3 November 2011 . Retrieved 10 November 2011. a b c d e f King, David (2011). Death in the City of Light (1sted.). New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-307-45289-4. a b c "Crime Library: Serial Killers: Dr. Marcel Petiot". TruTV.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07 . Retrieved 2013-06-11. Ryan, Allan A. Jr. (1984). Quiet Neighbors- Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals In America. USA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-175823-9.

a b Robbins, Christopher. Test of Courage: The Michel Thomas Story (2000). New York Free Press/Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0263-3/Republished as Courage Beyond Words (2007). New York McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-149911-3 For international customers: The center is staffed and provides answers on Sundays through Thursdays between 7AM and 14PM Israel time Toll Linklater, Magnus; Hilton, Isabel; Ascherson, Neal (1984). The Nazi Legacy: Klaus Barbie and the International Fascist Connection. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. ISBN 978-0-03-069303-8. As the body count grew, Petiot knew he had to find another means of disposal. So he had two incinerators installed in his basement, and a lime pit for decomposition. This book follows the French police, The Gestapo, Jewish citizens trying to escape Paris and the activities of Marcel Petiot himself.Petiot then told the people present: “Gentlemen, I ask you not to look. This will not be very pretty.” Hammerschmidt, Peter: "Die Tatsache allein, daß V-43 118 SS-Hauptsturmführer war, schließt nicht aus, ihn als Quelle zu verwenden". Der Bundesnachrichtendienst und sein Agent Klaus Barbie, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (ZfG), 59. Jahrgang, 4/2011. METROPOL Verlag. Berlin 2011, S. 333–349. (in German) In the 2001 film Rat Race, the Pear family visits a museum dedicated to Klaus Barbie, located in the southwest United States, having mistaken it to be a museum dedicated to the famous doll. [56] In this context Barbie is shown to represent a unifying force within Fourth Reich American Neo-Nazism. [57] Oberg was captured in June 1945 in the mountains near Kitzbuhel by the U.S. military. He had been disguised as a private in the Austrian Army. He was sentenced to death by a British court before receiving another death sentence from the French in October 1954. On 10 April 1958, the sentence was commuted to life by French President Vincent Auriol, his successor René Coty then reduced it further to 20 years hard labor in 1959. [10] On 20 November 1962, Oberg was finally pardoned by President Charles de Gaulle and set free on 28 November 1962. [1] [a] In April 1939, Barbie became engaged to Regina Margaretta Willms, the 23-year-old daughter of a postal clerk; they had two children, a son named Klaus-Georg Altmann and a daughter named Ute Messner. [4]

There are reasons to question the 18th century report from France. For one thing, there are absolutely no police records of the alleged murders. For another, the man who made the claim had a strong riff with the police and the state. Most people believe that the claim was made to sell a story and to defame the French. One witness at his execution noted: “He approached the guillotine with ease, as if he were walking into the office for a routine appointment.” It is rumored that people all over France came to Paris to try his delectable delicacies. Even King Charles VI was reportedly a connoisseur of the butcher’s meat pies and pâtés. Police later took away “33 pounds of charred bones, 11 pounds of human hair, including more than 10 whole scalps, and three dustbins full of pieces too small to identify”.All of France was ruled by the king, whose palace was kept in the heart of Paris: Île de la Cité (Island of the City). The island was relatively isolated due to the difficulty of constructing bridges that could withstand the winter floods and the ice floats – such as the one that came six years earlier in 1328 – that would sometimes float by, taking with them the bridges and water front houses. Barbie collaborated with René Barrientos's regime, including teaching the general's private paramilitaries named "Furmont" how torture can best be used. The regime's political repression against leftist groups was helped by Barbie's knowledge about intelligence work, torture and interrogations. In 1972 under General Banzer (with whom Barbie collaborated even more openly), he assisted in illegal arrests, interrogations and murders of opposition and progressive groups. Journalists and activists who wrote or spoke about the regime's crimes against human rights were arrested and many fell victim to so-called " disappearances", the state's secret murders and abductions of leftists. Barbie actively participated in the regime's oppression of opponents. [26] [27] [28] [29] The British–French documentary film My Enemy's Enemy ( French: Mon Meilleur Ennemi) is the story of Klaus Barbie, following him through World War II and post-war hiding journey in Bolivia. It depicts his involvement in the assassination of Che Guevara. It also discusses his French trial for war crimes committed in Lyon, such as the torture of Jean Moulin. [58] Marcel Petiot was a doctor who exploited his French Resistance status to kill Jews fleeing the Nazi regime in France's capital during WW2. The Butcher of Paris follows the uncovering of his crimes by Jodkum, a cruel Gestapo officer, Commissaire Massu, a kind detective and Bernard, Massu's son and protégé. Though the Gestapo's antisemitic agenda and other sociopolitical factors get in the way of Petiot's capture, it isn't long before he is caught and put to trial. After seven months on the run, he was caught in a Metro station in October 1944. He was charged with 135 crimes, including 26 counts of murder.