Barbie’s son ‘was held hostage’
NZPA-Reuter Paris American Intelligence agents who recruited the alleged Nazi war criminal, Klaus Barbie, after World War II had held his infant son hostage to guarantee his return from spying missions, Barbie’s French daughter-in-law alleges. Francoise Crozier de Altmann also said in an interview with the weekly, “Journal du Dimanche,”
that Barbie had expected his extradition to France after the election of the Socialist President, Mr Francois Mitterrand, in May, 1981. Barbie, aged 69, was expelled to France in February from Bolivia where he had lived since 1951 under the name of Altmann. The former Gestapo officer awaits trial in a Lyons prison for crimes against
humanity. He has been twice sentenced to death in absentia by French courts. Francoise Altmann, who married Barbie’s son, Klaus Georg, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 1968, said in the interview that Barbie’s contacts with the United States Central Intelligence Agency had begun shortly after the end of World War 11. “In 1946 the Americans
sequestered his baby, Klaus Georg. They wanted to be sure that Barbie would return from the missions they assigned to him. The baby was the hostage,” she was quoted as saying. Previous reports have said that Barbie began working for the Americans in 1947 or 1948, providing information on other Nazis and Intelligence information
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