Editing Klaus Barbie (section)

{{Villain_Infobox
|Image = Klaus Barbie in uniform.jpg
|fullname = Nikolaus Barbie
|alias = The Butcher of Lyon<br>Adler<br>Eagle<br>Klaus Altmann<br>Klaus Barbie
|origin = Godesberg, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany
|occupation = SS and Gestapo functionary
|type of villain = War Criminal
|goals = 
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>Mutilation<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Arms trafficking]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Rape]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>
|hobby = }}{{Quote|If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?|Klaus Barbie}}
'''Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie''' (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' and [[Gestapo]] functionary during the [[Nazi]] era. He was known as the '''"Butcher of Lyon"''' for having personally tortured French prisoners of the Gestapo while stationed in Lyon, France. After the war, United States intelligence services employed him for his anti-Marxist efforts and also aided his escape to Bolivia.

The West German Intelligence Service later recruited him. Barbie is suspected of having had a hand in the Bolivian ''coup d'état'' orchestrated by Luis García Meza in 1980. After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie no longer had the protection of the government in La Paz and in 1983 was extradited to France, where he was convicted of [[crimes against humanity]]. He died of cancer in prison on 25 September 1991.