On This Day in Weird, February 5...
1983: Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie, the
"Butcher of Lyon," is brought to trial in France, revealing details
of his flight from Europe after World War II and his long, subversive
collaboration with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in South America. Finally
convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1987, he dies in prison on
September 23, 1991.
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