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Barbie Trial -- Day 27 --

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.516.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1680 | Film ID: 4043

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    Barbie Trial -- Day 27 --
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    Overview

    Duration
    00:29:54
    Date
    Event:  1987 June 19
    Locale
    Lyon, France
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
    Contributor
    Producer: Daniel Borgeot
    Subject: Klaus Barbie
    Biography
    Klaus Barbie (1913-1991), was the SS-Obersturmfuehrer and the Gestapo Chief of Lyon in German occupied France. Barbie was born in Bad Godesberg, Germany on October 25, 1913. Following a stint in the Hitler Youth, Barbie joined the SS and SD after September 26, 1935. He joined the NSDAP later, in May 1937. In Lyons, he was head of Section IV, the Gestapo, at SD headquarters. From 1942 to 1944, Barbie allegedly committed numerous war crimes which earned him the name "The Butcher of Lyons." Most notably, he was responsible for the torture of French Resistance hero Jean Moulin and the deportation of the children from the village of Izieu. A military court in Lyons sentenced him to death in absentia in 1954. Both French and German authorities sought to track Barbie down, but after the war the United States helped him escape to South America in return for information he had. He lived under the pseudonym Klaus Altmann. He was discovered living in La Paz, Bolivia in 1960, but extradition attempts to Germany and France failed. In 1983, he was expelled from Bolivia and captured in French Guiana. On July 4, 1987 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Rhone Court of Assize after a highly publicized trial. [Source: Zentner, Christian. "Encyclopedia of the Third Reich." MacMillan, 1991.]

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    18:32:10:00 to 19:02:04:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 4043 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
      Master 4043 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
      Master 4043 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
      Master 4043 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
    Conditions on Use
    Contact Institut National de L'Audiovisuel at internationalsales@ina.fr for permissions and licensing this film footage.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection containing 185 hours of the Barbie Trial from the Institut National De L’Audiovisuel in Paris, France in July 2005.
    Note
    Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
    Copied From
    3/4" Umatic SECAM
    Film Source
    Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5940
    Source Archive Number: 80128
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:57:50
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