Nazi drug lord -Klaus Barbie, The Butcher of Lyon

A Nazi SS officer might be responsible for the death of Che Guvera, connected to Pablo Escobar, and killed 10.000 Jews in World War II

Karthick Nambi
Lessons from History

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Klaus Barbie.Source:holocaust.org

The allied forces entered the outskirts of Lyon in France. Even at this last-minute hundreds of Jews were hoarded into a train in Lyon station.

The passengers include even small children. The train’s next stop was a concentration camp in Germany. Even at the brink of loss, the man in charge of the Nazi occupation in Lyon did not rest.

He was responsible for the death of 10000 Jews in Lyon and escaped the trails after the war. He was Klaus Barbie or commonly called as the Butcher of Lyon.

Rise in Schutzstaffel to Head of Lyon:

Klaus Barbie in Lyon.Source:Wikipedia

Klaus Barbie was born on 25 October 1913 and had a tough childhood. Barbie joined the SS(Schutzstaffel) at a very young age and moved up the ranks quickly.

Barbie got a position in Gestapo (German secret police) working from Amsterdam, where he rounded leaders of resistance groups and killed them…

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