The Butcher of Lyon Hardcover – January 1, 1983 by Brendan Murphy
 
The name Klaus Barbie is becoming synonymous with the evils of the Nazi era. As a 29-year-old Gestapo lieutenant in Lyon, France, during WWII, Barbie wielded enormous power in his brutal oppression of French Resistance fighters and Jews. Today Barbie is incarcerated in a French jail on a charge of crimes against humanity. Despite the fact that B arbie cannot be executed because of a new French law, his trial--the first prominentprosecution of a Nazi in almost a generation--has rekindled the question of complicity with those who designed and executed Nazi inhumanity. Barbie's survival for almost 40 years after the commission of his crimes was made possible only by the assitance of those who would have been his natural enemies.
 
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