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Nikolaus Barbie

Also Known As: "Klaus", "Butcher of Lyon"
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Birthplace: Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Death: September 25, 1991 (77)
Pierre Bénite, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (Leukemia)
Immediate Family:

Son of Nikolaus Barbie and Anna Barbie
Husband of Regina Margaretta Willms
Father of Klaus-Jörg Altmann
Brother of Kurt Barbie

Occupation: Military officer
Managed by: Andrei Jedi Bartolo Sarmiento
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About Klaus Barbie

Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie was a German operative of the SS and SD 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 the Gestapo in Lyon.

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Klaus Barbie's Timeline

1913
October 25, 1913
Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1946
December 11, 1946
1991
September 25, 1991
Age 77
Pierre Bénite, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France