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Klaus Barbie

1913 - 1991

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Nikolaus Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German officer of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon. After the war, United States intelligence services employed him for his anti-communist efforts and aided his escape to Bolivia, where he advised the dictatorial regime on how to repress opposition through torture. In 1983, the United States apologised to France for the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Klaus Barbie has received more than 5,454,009 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Klaus Barbie is the 110th most popular military personnel (down from 104th in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 262nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Military Personnel.

Klaus Barbie was a high-ranking Nazi officer who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews and other people in France during World War II. He was known as the Butcher of Lyon and the Gestapo's "Butcher of Lyon."

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Klaus Barbie ranks 110 out of 2,058. Before him are George S. Patton, Zhang Fei, Andrea Doria, Theodor Eicke, Perdiccas, and Robert E. Lee. After him are Pancho Villa, Stilicho, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Louis-Nicolas Davout, and Vasily Chuikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Klaus Barbie ranks 13. Before him are Rosa Parks, Jean Marais, Robert Capa, Josef Bican, Claude Simon, and Jesse Owens. After him are Gustáv Husák, Burt Lancaster, Ramón Mercader, Paul Ricœur, Willis Lamb, and Makarios III. Among people deceased in 1991, Klaus Barbie ranks 12. Before him are Serge Gainsbourg, Edwin McMillan, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carl David Anderson, Klaus Kinski, and Jiang Qing. After him are John Bardeen, Miles Davis, Gustáv Husák, Soichiro Honda, Graham Greene, and Lazar Kaganovich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Klaus Barbie ranks 282 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Dassler (1900), Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), Max Horkheimer (1895), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Anton Drexler (1884), and Athanasius Kircher (1602). After him are Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Irma Grese (1923), and Carl Zeiss (1816).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Klaus Barbie ranks 25. Before him are Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Albert Kesselring (1885), Heinrich Müller (1900), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), John of Austria (1547), and Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876). After him are Hermann Hoth (1885), Michael Wittmann (1914), Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Franz Halder (1884), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), and August von Mackensen (1849).

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