“If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?”

—  Klaus Barbie

Quoted in "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press" - Page 184 - by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair - Political Science - 1998

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SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier and Gestapo member 1913–1991

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