The Butcher of Lyon: Klaus Barbie’s Reign of Terror in Occupied France
In the spring of 1944, forty-four Jewish children were torn from a quiet home in the village of Izieu. Almost none survived. The man who ordered their deportation was Klaus Barbie—Gestapo chief of Lyon, known across France as the Butcher of Lyon.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson recounts Barbie’s brutal campaign against the French Resistance and Jewish community: the torture and death of Jean Moulin, the Rue Sainte-Catherine roundup, the final convoy out of Lyon, and the sadistic methods that earned him his nickname.
We follow Barbie’s escape after the war, his…
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