Klaus Barbie Quotes

Klaus Barbie trabajaría para una rama de la contrainteligencia militar estadounidense, mientras que otra, liderada por el coronel Earl S. Browning, lo tenía en una lista de detenciones prioritarias. Cuando el coronel Garvey tuvo conocimiento de que Barbie estaba en la lista de Browning, ordenó de inmediato que le sacaran de ella y así el criminal de guerra pudo continuar desempeñando plácidamente sus tareas para los servicios de inteligencia de Estados Unidos. Para Washington, el nuevo enemigo a batir era el comunismo, que pretendía extenderse por Europa, y si para ello había que contratar como agentes a criminales de guerra, no habría ningún problema. «No era cuestión de escrúpulos. […] Aquí la moral no tenía nada que ver. Aquí de lo que se trataba era de patriotismo

It was Klaus Barbie—along with the CIA—who assisted those generals in locating and assassinating the famous Communist icon Che Guevara.

Incredibly, Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, finds sanctuary with the OSS.

Now, the same Klaus Barbie who took glee in murdering innocent children, is employed—and protected—by the U.S. government.

The United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is not aggressively pursuing war crimes prosecutions. Instead, it is recruiting members of the Nazi Party to spy against the Soviet Union. The American OSS station chief in Switzerland, the aristocratic Allen Dulles, is in fact actually subverting the work of Benny Ferencz and giving assistance to a number of leading Nazis. Incredibly, Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, finds sanctuary with the OSS.

the obsession to oppose communism at any cost led six U.S. Army officials to make a pact with the devil—Klaus Barbie.” America, it seemed, was finally starting to come to terms with its own past as a safe haven for the Nazis.

Meanwhile, the Gestapo’s most notorious investigator—who would within a year be awarded the Iron Cross (reputedly by Hitler himself) for torturing and slaughtering thousands of résistants—was also taking a personal interest in Virginia. Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie, reared by an abusive father who had been severely mentally and physically damaged in fighting the French at Verdun in 1916, was not yet based full-time in Lyon. But he was already consumed by an obsessive desire to crush SOE, seen by the Germans as the backbone of the whole underground threat. Dozens of Gestapo officers were intercepting suspect signals coming out of Lyon and conducting waves of arrests and constant day and night raids from a plushly carpeted suite of offices on the third floor of the cavernous Hôtel Terminus next to Perrache station. They knew they were fast moving in on the center of the terrorist cell. Someone would break down under torture; Barbie would make sure of it. The Limping Lady of Lyon was becoming the Nazis’ most wanted Allied agent in the whole of France.