"as head of the Gestapo of Lyon that earned him the name Butcher of Lyon. Evidence suggests that he personally tortured prisoners, men, women, and children alike, by breaking extremities, sexual abuse using dogs, and electroshock, among other methods.[2]
It is estimated that he was directly responsible for the deaths of up to 14,000 people.[3][4] The most infamous case is the arrest and torture of Jean Moulin, one of the highest-ranking members of the French Resistance. In April 1944, Barbie ordered the deportation to Auschwitz of a group of 44 Jewish children from an orphanage at Izieu. After his operations in Lyon, he rejoined the SIPO-SD of Lyon in Bruyeres-in-Vosges, where he was also responsible for a massacre in Rehaupal in September
1944.
[edit] CIA and Bolivia
In
1947, Barbie became an agent for the 66th Detachment of the
U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC).[5] In 1951, he fled to Juan Peron's Argentina with the help of a ratline organized by U.S. intelligence services[6] and the Croatian Ustashi Roman Catholic priest Krunoslav Draganović. Asked by Barbie why he was going out of his way to help him escape, Draganović responded, "We have to maintain a sort of moral reserve on which we can draw in the future."[7"
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