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P*t« • THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 19, 1979
Elect
Elaine Wiggins
Lester
City Council, Post 15
October 23
Be Involved In Your Government-Vote
‘Butcher’ safe in Bolivia;
extradition not probable
by Jaime Reibel
LA PAZ, Bolivia (JTA)—Klaus
Barbi, alias Klaus Altman, better
known as “The Butcher of Lyon,"
lives a secure, respected life here.
Barbi, the Gestapo chief at France
in 1943 and 1944, surfaced in
Bolivia shortly after World War II,
as did many other Nazis of lesser
rank and lower profile. Bolivia,
after the war and since, has
traditionally been a country of
right-wing military dictatorships
with a notable lack of interest in
the backgrounds of wealthy
European emigres.
After Germany occupied all of
France in November 1942 the
Gestapo was ordered to pacify the
local population. Barbi was the
Nazi officer chosen for the job. He
immediately established his
headquarters in Lyon, the third
largest city in France and nascent
center of French partisan activity.
It was from his base in Lyon that
Barbi shipped thousands of
French Jews east to their eventual
deaths in German concentration
camps. It was in Lyon that he
personally ordered the assassina
tion of Jean Moulin, French
partisan leader and bead of
internal resistance, after Moulin
was betrayed to the Gestapo by a
French informer.
For his ruthless suppression of
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partisan activity, Barbi acquired
the nickname of “The Butcher of
Lyon." He is responsible for the
deaths of hundreds, possibly
thousands of Frenchmen. Some
were fighters in the resistance,
others who had the misfortune to
get in his way were uninvolved
bystanders. The most infamous of
the many incidents that Barbi-
Altman has been linked to is that
of herding the entire town of Aires
sur Adour into the town church; of
burning down the church and all
the townspeople in it alive in
reprisal for partisan activity in the
area.
The French Armed Forces
Tribunal, a war crimes
investigatory and judicial agency,
has twice condemned Barbi to
death in absentia. His whereabouts
were unknown until the late 1960s,
when he was identified in Bolivia
using a German passport under the
name of Altman. In 1970 he took
Bolivian citizenship with that
assumed name.
One of his closest friends and
backers throughout the almost 35-
year period after the collapse of the
Third Reich has been Gen. Juan
Pareda Aspun. During the Banzer
regime of 1973-1978 Pareda was
Commander-in-Chief of the
Bolivian Air Force and
concomitantly Minister of the
Interior. For these five years Barbi
was an “official advisor” to the
Ministry, the equivalent of the
U.S. State Department and FBI
rolled into one massive,
intimidating unit. In 1978 Pareda
overthrew Banzer in a bloodless,
internally-executed coup d’etat.
After locating “The Butcher of
Lyon," and based upon the death
sentences handed down against
him by the French Armed Forces
Tribunal, the French government
through its Embassy in La Paz
presented documents to the
Bolivian government on Feb. I,
1972 asking for Barbi's
extradition. The Supreme Court of
Sucre turned down the extradition
process on Dec. 6, 1974, for lack of
an existing treaty between the two
nations. Informed diplomatic
sources claim that Barbi's well-
placed friends in government (that
hand-pick the Supreme Court)
were too powerful for the French.
In 1975 the French government
officially asked for Barbi’s
expulsion from Bolivia. Again, no
results. Over the past five years the
French through private contacts
have continued to pressure for an
executive decree ruling in their
favor on the extradition demand.
But according to the French
Embassy in La Paz, “the Bolivian
authorities are not very
interested.”
Meanwhile, “The Butcher of
Lyon” walks the streets of La Paz a
free man.
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