CIA Protected Nazi War Criminal for 30 Years - The Klaus Barbie Story

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Did you know the CIA protected one of history's most brutal war criminals for decades? Klaus Barbie tortured thousands of French resistance fighters during World War II. They called him the butcher of Lyon.

[00:00:10]When Germany fell, he should have faced justice. Instead, American intelligence secretly recruited him. For 30 years, the CIA shielded Barbie from prosecution. They used him to hunt communists and establish escape routes for other Nazi war criminals. Holocaust survivors searched for him while he lived freely under American protection.

[00:00:27]The Cold War had begun, and America chose strategic advantage over justice for the dead.