On May 11, 1987, Klaus Barbie appeared before the Rhône Assize Court.
At the end of this trial, which lasted seven weeks, the man who was the head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944 was sentenced to life imprisonment.
He is responsible for the deportation of hundreds of Jews from France, including the Izieu roundup: on April 6, 1944, 52 children and seven adults were sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
In eight episodes of twenty minutes each, this documentary mini-series tells the story of his hunt until his resounding trial.
The first four parts are visible online, the other four broadcast on January 29, in “1:15 p.m., on Sunday”.
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Stunning testimonials
Calm, with chilling bad faith, he denies any involvement, swears his name is Klaus Altmann.
The archives of the 1970s, when the former SS man lived without hiding on the other side of the Atlantic, pass through
Klaus Barbie, tears of crime.
The links between the German and the Bolivian power were very strong.
The Nazi had even placed at his disposal a militia of fanatical fascists.
The old Alvaro de Castro, who was his friend and does not seem really suffocated by remorse, recounts this period in great detail.
Only the arrival of democracy in Bolivia allowed his extradition to France.
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Robert Badinter, who testifies here with his eternal righteousness, wants the trial to be filmed.
So that this document serves history.
Here again, the Nazi demonstrates his bad faith.
Shows no feelings of guilt.
The then legal designer claims to have seen an emotion on her face only once, when the magistrate Pierre Truche asked her: “
What can you answer to your children if they ask you? ?"
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The testimonies of the victims, including the educator of the colony of Izieu who escaped from the camps, astounded the court.
Robert Badinter followed the trial closely.
As a former Keeper of the Seals, of course, but not only.
Three years earlier, he had discovered that the man guilty of having condemned his father to deportation, and therefore to death, was called Klaus Barbie.
