“I admire you, but in the end everybody talks.”
To Lise Lesevre during interrogation, from the Saturday, March 23, 1987 issue of "The Philadelphia Inquirer"
Nikolaus Barbie dit Klaus Barbie, né le 25 octobre 1913 à Bad Godesberg et mort le 25 septembre 1991 en prison à Lyon, est un criminel de guerre allemand, officier SS sous le régime nazi.
Il est chef de la section IV dans les services de la police de sûreté allemande basée à Lyon, durant l'occupation de la France par l'Allemagne nazie. Surnommé « le boucher de Lyon », en fuite durant plus de 40 ans, il est finalement extradé de Bolivie vers la France où il est condamné à perpétuité pour crime contre l’humanité à Lyon en 1987.
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“I admire you, but in the end everybody talks.”
To Lise Lesevre during interrogation, from the Saturday, March 23, 1987 issue of "The Philadelphia Inquirer"
“If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?”
Quoted in "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press" - Page 184 - by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair - Political Science - 1998
Quoted in "The Butcher of Lyon: The Story of Infamous Nazi Klaus Barbie" - Page 140 - by Brendan Murphy - History - 1983
“Don't worry. Your friends are dead and you are going to join them.”
To Blandon from "Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons" - Page 63 - by Tom Bower - Biography & Autobiography - 1984
Quoted in "Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons" - Page 23 - by Tom Bower - Biography & Autobiography - 1984
Lise Lesevre