Klaus Barbie
You can get Malibu Barbie, French Barbie and Bootcamp barbie in her cute military uniform. But I have searched high and low and Mattel don’t seem to have produced a Klaus Barbie. I wonder why. He is, after all, a good all american guy.
Born Oct 25th 1913 in the Saar region of Germany (happy birthday Klaus) Barbie joined the SS in 1935 and became a Nazi party member in 1937. In 1940 and 41 he helped to round up Dutch Jews and transport them to concentration camps. But his real work got underway in 1942 when posted to Dijon. He was transfereed to the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, and took over the personal duties of torture and interrogation.
In one case after beating one of his “suspects” he had him skinned alive and immersed his head in a bucket of ammonia. For his service to the Reich the French gave him the sobriquet “The Butcher of Lyon”. And it was not for the quality of his Cervelas.
So, you would imagine that a cruel and inhumane monster like this would be hanged, or at the very least would end his life in jail? How wrong can you be? Enter the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, the CIC. They recruited the Butcher of Lyon as a spy, believing that the French Government was infiltrated by communists. When the French demanded the monster they had already sentenced in absentia what did they US Army do? Did they hand over the Butcher? No.
Instead the CIC thought it would be a good idea to sneak Barbie out of Europe to South America. He lived a life of wealth and luxury in Bolivia, consorting with the ruling elite.
When, at last, the Bolivian dictators were deposed the democratically elected government extradited him to France in 1983. Indicted in 1983, sentenced in 1987, Barbie died in a French prison in 1991.
Good job USA, good job. Hoo-ah!
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