Overview
- Film Title
-
Proces de Klaus Barbie
- Duration
- 00:57:46
- Date
-
Event:
1987 June 25
- 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
- 17:46:07:00 to 18:43:53:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 4072 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 4072 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 4072 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 4072 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
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- 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
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- Copyright Holder
- Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- 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: 5969
Source Archive Number: 80157 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:58:06
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