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Evil Nazi dubbed 'Butcher of Lyon' was responsible for 14,000 WW2 murders

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crimes that included the murder of over 14,000 people and deportation of 7,500 others.Klaus Barbie joined the SS in 1935 at the age of 22 and began working in its security service, which acted as the intelligence-gathering arm of the Nazi Party.After the German conquest of France, he was assigned to Lyon as the head of the Gestapo in 1942.During his time in Lyon, he personally tortured adult and child prisoners and became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for his sick volume of crimes.

In one shocking example of his despicable crimes, he is reported to have skinned a French Resistance leader and doused his head with ammonia and cold water, causing such severe burns that he could not sit or stand for three days, resulting in his death.In 1943, he was awarded the Iron Cross (First Class) by Adolf Hitler for his campaign against the French Resistance and the capture of Jean Moulin – a high-ranking member of the French Resistance and his most prominent captive.In another horrifying act, Barbie ordered the deportation of a group of 44 Jewish children from an orphanage to the infamous concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1944.Despite the extent of his heinous crimes, the "Butcher of Lyon" seemed to have escaped justice following the fall of Nazi Germany and was used by the Americans to further anti-communist efforts in Europe.Despite French pleas for his extradition with the aim of executing him for his crimes, the US allegedly refused to hand him over and helped him flee to Bolivia in South America in 1951.According to historian Robert Wolfe, the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) refused to give him up to the French because they deemed that Barbie knew too much about the network of German spies the CIC had planted in European.

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